Ms Ann Campbell:

We have just completed a strategic plan for the school of engineering. We are fortunate that the apprenticeship blocks are climbing again. This year, for September 2018, we will have 28 blocks, if memory serves, and we foresee that growing over the next number of years because the construction industry is back on its feet again. We have the capacity to deliver on that and we look forward to doing so.

Additionally, the demand for life-long learning provision in engineering has not been strong in the region but we think that there are opportunities to grow that. That is one of the things that we are doing in the strategic plan for the school of engineering. We previously offered level seven programmes in engineering with an optional add-on degree for those students who wished to have an honours degree. We are now reviewing that because the demand from students seems to be to go directly to a level eight degree. We will, this September, be offering level eight degrees in engineering as ab initiodegrees for the first time.