North East England
The North East CoP will be convened through delivery of a local Science Festival, building on last year’s successful and collaborative delivery of the British Science...
- Supporting the development of a national, strategic agenda to promote STEM outreach
- Unblocking the pipeline: How the third sector can increase HE participation in STEM subjects report now available
- STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
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The purpose of this site
To foster collaboration between universities and civil society (i.e. voluntary and community sector) organisations to ensure the sustainability and legacy of the widening participation theme of the National HE STEM Programme. more...
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The primary audiences for the site
National and local civil society organisations and universities and other higher education providers engaged in activity aimed at widening access to STEM subjects
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New report launched, 3 July 2012
Unblocking the Pipeline argues that the third sector/civil society is uniquely placed to address the challenges in increasing the numbers studying STEM courses in higher education and broadening the range of backgrounds they come from. more...
HE STEM on Twitter
Communities of Practice (COPs)
Forming sustainable partnerships between HEIs and Third Sector Organisations in the delivery of outreach activities to enable progression to STEM subjects for learners from groups under-represented in these subjects in HE. Find out more...
North West England
The aim of the North West CoP is to develop a community of universities and third sector organisations (TSOs) tasked with making science inspirational, accessible and...
South West England
The South West CoP will form new partnerships with the Bristol Somali Resource Centre (BSRC), the British Science Association , Bristol City Council and the...
Wales
The South Wales Community of Practice (CoP) is being formed around the existing Science Alliance Cymru network, which has been in place for 5 years. This project...
West Midlands
The aim of the West Midlands CoP is to extend university outreach activities into hard-to-reach community groups to engage potential STEM learners and their parents...
Resources
A Guide to Delivering Effective STEM Public Engagement
A core goal of the project is to upskill Masters, PhD students and STEM academics in their delivery of public engagement activities. To achieve this, two worksh...
Unblocking the pipeline: How the third sector can increase HE participation in STEM subjects
A national report summarizing the role that TSOs can have in building a sustainable, national community of practice in access to HE STEM activity....
Professor Peter Cox: What Inspired Me to Choose Maths?
A clip of staff and student perspectives with regards why they chose to study Mathematics at University....
Professor Peter Cox – Why Choose Science?
A clip of staff perspectives as to why choosing to study any STEM subject at HE level is a good idea....
Generating Genius Good Practice Guide
This booklet examines the two programmes run by Generating Genius (Junior Genius and Uni Genius) and presents the methodology they have developed for working wi...
Dr Tim Jupp: Why Choose Mathematics?
A clip of staff perspectives with regards why they chose to study Mathematics at University....
