Wakeham review of STEM degree provision and graduate employability

This independent review looks at the employment situation among science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates and the role of accreditation of courses. The review focuses on the skills requirements of employers, how STEM graduates' skills and knowledge relate to labour market demand, and how existing accreditation systems support this. The review's primary task has been to investigate the graduate employment outcomes of those STEM disciplines that are judged to be of high value and important to economic growth and productivity, and to identify which of those disciplines have sufficiently poor outcomes to warrant further in-depth consideration through future targeted work. The report makes two key recommendations focused on the need to think creatively about how additional opportunities for work experience could be opened up to students during their studies and how the development of soft skills could be embedded more systematically and robustly in degree curricula.

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