STEM News

When you think of a coder, what image comes to mind? For many, it’s a man surrounded by screens of complex code. But in a world powered by technology, coding should be for everyone.

Engineering is at the heart of modern civilisation. From the infrastructure that supports our cities to the technology that powers our daily lives, engineers play a crucial role in shaping the world.

Government sets out first steps to break down barriers to digital inclusion affecting one in four Britons to help put more money into people’s pockets. Millions of people in Britain are set to gain greater digital skills, as ministers tackle the scourge of digital exclusion currently holding too many people back from boosting their employability and accessing vital services.

The challenge of recruiting talent into STEM fields has become a widely recognised issue, in this column alone we see regular launches of various initiatives aimed at inspiring the next generations (with an emphasis on the ‘s’).

The AI revolution is accelerating, but Europe is struggling to keep up and risks falling behind in AI innovation. According to the latest data, 75% of European employers struggled to fill AI-related roles and this gap is growing every year.

A campaign coinciding with National Apprenticeship Week has launched to drive awareness of the career opportunities in the nuclear sector to GCSE level students.

This National Apprenticeship Week, Cassandra MacDonald, Dean of School of Technology at BPP writes about the urgent need for skills in tech to be rethought about.  

To celebrate International Women and Girls in Science Day, female tech leaders at Pipedrive and PagerDuty offer their thoughts on why representation in STEM matters.

National Apprenticeship Week is here, with this year’s theme being ‘skills for life’. In this article, we hear from Steven Hurst, Director of Corporate Learning at Arden University, who discusses how engineering organisations can help their employees develop the critical, lifelong skills needed to support the industry’s growth.

Acer joins forces with Intel for the transformative Intel ‘Skills for Innovation’ (SFI) initiative, designed to revolutionise classrooms by integrating future-ready digital skills into teaching and learning practices.