NMITE confirms new degree awarding powers
3 August 2023The New Model Institute for Technology & Engineering (NMITE), which includes the Centre for Advanced Timber Technology, has confirmed that it has received its New Degree Awarding Powers from the Office for Students, having successfully completed the assessment process describing this as “perfect timing” with its first (Pioneer) cohort graduating next year (2024).
James Newby, NMITE president and CEO, has praised his academic team for their work and enormous contribution to what he describes as a hugely significant step change in NMITE’s accelerated journey of innovation
“The important element for us, and our students, is that we have proved ourselves in terms of academic quality and are delighted that our practices have been considered academically robust,” he said. “We see this as an endorsement of our new model and our academic pedagogy. Students choose us because of our size and innovative approach, not despite it.”
NMITE took the decision to start with The Open University (OU) as its validating partner (announced December1, 2020), a decision which James Newby claims has added value to NMITE’s progress, allowing it to focus on developing and delivering its new model of engineering education and describing OU as the perfect partner and one with which they may want to collaborate with further in the future.
“This collaborative approach has worked well for us, giving us access to advice from an experienced provider with their own extremely high standards but one which is also amenable to new models. We are very proud to have worked with The Open University, who have been both innovative and adaptable, another example of a great Higher Education innovator,” said Mr Newby.
