{"id":17044,"date":"2017-11-01T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/?p=17044"},"modified":"2017-11-01T13:24:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T13:24:36","slug":"making-scotland-a-stem-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2017\/11\/01\/making-scotland-a-stem-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Scotland a STEM Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>STEM Education and Training Strategy for Scotland has now been published<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/11\/STEM-Strat-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17046 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/11\/STEM-Strat-2-215x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A STEM (Sciences Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics) Education and Training Strategy was launched in the Scottish Parliament last week by Ms Shirley-Anne Somerville, Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science. The Strategy, together with a STEM Evidence Base Report, is now available to download from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Publications\/2017\/10\/1386\/downloads\">http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Publications\/2017\/10\/1386\/downloads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A central focus on the strategy is to enable everyone to develop <strong>STEM skills for learning, for life and for work<\/strong>. It provides a new emphasis on career pathways\u00a0within\u00a0STEM\u00a0sectors and to grow successful\u00a0 partnerships between schools and employers through the Developing the Young Workforce Programme.\u00a0 The strategy also includes a commitment to expand Foundation, Modern and Graduate Apprenticeship Programmes to enable many to pursue jobs and careers in STEM through these pathways. This <strong>strong focus on skills and careers<\/strong> will further enhance national efforts to Develop the Young Workforce (DYW) and embed employment and career management skills in the curriculum through the <a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/what-we-do\/Developing%20employability%20and%20skills\">Career Education Standard.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A wide variety and resources including exemplars around DYW and STEM can be accessed on the National Improvement Hub here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEM Education and Training Strategy for Scotland has now been published A STEM (Sciences Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics) Education and Training Strategy was launched in the Scottish Parliament last week by Ms Shirley-Anne Somerville, Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science. The Strategy, together with a STEM Evidence Base Report, is now available to download from: http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Publications\/2017\/10\/1386\/downloads A central focus on the strategy is to enable everyone to develop<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2017\/11\/01\/making-scotland-a-stem-nation\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,24,102,62,99,40,38,21,39,44],"tags":[57,116,56,54,94,153,8,167,52,53,242],"class_list":["post-17044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broad-general-education","category-cfe","category-ndlc","category-inclusion-and-equality","category-learning-for-sustainability","category-mathematics","category-outdoor-learning","category-sciences","category-skills","category-technologies","tag-career-education-standard","tag-career-management-skills","tag-careers","tag-dyw","tag-employability-skills","tag-learning-for-sustainability","tag-partnership-working","tag-sciences","tag-skills-for-learning-life-and-work","tag-technologies","tag-world-of-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}