Engineering our future: stepping up the urgency on STEM

This report argues that a highly skilled science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) workforce will be required to underpin the UK’s ability to build an innovative, knowledge-intensive economy. The report, taking the perspective of the business sector, examines three aspects of this issue: (1) the importance of STEM skills for economic growth and higher living standards; (2) improving rates of progress on building STEM skills; and (3) creating the ‘pipeline’ for improving the STEM skills supply. The key recommendations are: expanding STEM education to include vocational pathways, particu ... Show more

Corporate authors: Confederation of British Industry (Great Britain) (CBI)

Published: London, England, CBI, 2014

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 26 p.

Access item: http://sciencecentres.org.uk/reports/downloads/engineering_our_future.pdf

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