Latest news and updates from EAL - April 2025

Welcome to our round-up of news and events, catching you up with all the latest news in and around EAL.

Enginuity Skills Awards 2025 – table sales open now

We are honoured to be one of the sponsors for the Enginuity Skills Awards 2025, due to be held Thursday, 3 July 2025 at the Park Plaza London Riverbank. Tickets are now available, so join us to celebrate the outstanding individuals, teams, and organisations driving excellence across engineering and manufacturing.

Secure your seats at the event and save on ticket prices – Earlybird discounted tickets are only available for a limited time until 22 May 2025 (11:59 PM BST).

• Individual tickets (Earlybird): £160 (Standard: £200)
• Table of 10 group tickets (Earlybird): £1,500 (Standard: £1,745)

Book now

Resources available on ACE360

We’re excited to share that the resources for the L6 Electromechanical Engineer are now available on ACE360!

If you have any questions or need further assistance with this standard or others from EAL for end-point assessment, please feel free to contact our friendly Regional Development Managers or Customer Success Executives.

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Paid associate vacancies available in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning

Calling on experts in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning!

EAL have a great opportunity for subject matter experts with experience in the fields of refrigeration and air conditioning to develop and review learning resources for the new T Level Technical Qualification,

Your role will involve:

• Creating or reviewing engaging learning content
• Refining educational materials
• Ensuring industry relevance.
• Project duration: May – September 2025

All work is paid!

Interested to find out more, or know someone who is? Please email the Learning Resource team for more details.

EAL and UKBIC Battery Manufacturing Launch event

EAL, in collaboration with UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC), is excited to invite you to the official launch of our new fully regulated qualification to support the battery manufacturing sector.

This exclusive EAL and UKBIC Battery Manufacturing Launch event will bring together key industry stakeholders to explore how these qualifications support the upskilling and reskilling of the workforce within the industry, and will support the new battery manufacturing technician standard (ST1338). Attendees will also have the opportunity to network and take a guided tour of UKBIC’s state-of-the-art facilities.

Event details

Date: Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Time: 11:00 – 13:00

Location: Battery Industrialisation Centre, Coventry, CV8 3AL.

Visit the Event page to register and confirm your attendance - and keep an eye on our Events page for more details.

EAL Engineering Industry Network

EAL is excited to announce the launch of EEIN - a trusted network of employers, educators, and more.

More about EEIN

Qualifications review April 2025

Help us to keep our qualifications up to date and aligned with your needs - have your say.

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SPARKS Female Skills Competition

An EAL apprentice took the honours at the SPARKS Female Skills Competition – find out more about this fantastic achievement.

SPARKS 2025

Apprenticeship Prize Draw

We're giving BSE apprentices the chance to win some essential hardware. 

Enter now

Royal Visit and IMechE success

An EAL-affiliated college is celebrating some huge happenings over the last few weeks.

Find out more