STEM careers get boost

By Kathryn Roberts2007-07-01T00:00:00

Government backs proposals for better careers advice for students, with the aim to encourage more students to continue to study science and maths post-16

In May Bill Rammell, minister for lifelong learning, further and higher education, set out proposals for improving the information and advice given to young people on careers available to STEM (science, design and technology, engineering and mathematics) graduates. Working with the science base to improve young people's and their parents' awareness of the benefits of studying science was identified as one of the Government's priorities in the Next steps document published in 2003.¹ The current proposals were developed by the newly appointed STEM director John Holman, who is also director of the National Science Learning Centre based at the University of York.

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