{"id":217,"date":"2019-11-15T16:52:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/stemnation\/?page_id=217"},"modified":"2021-01-25T16:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T16:11:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/stemnation\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Welcome to Education Scotland&#8217;s STEM Nation online resource<\/h1>\n<h3>In 2017 the Scottish Government published the <a style=\"color: #21759b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/binaries\/content\/documents\/govscot\/publications\/strategy-plan\/2017\/10\/science-technology-engineering-mathematics-education-training-strategy-scotland\/documents\/00526536-pdf\/00526536-pdf\/govscot%3Adocument\/00526536.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"color: #99cc00\">STEM Education and Training Strategy<\/span><\/a> for Scotland &#8211; setting out its bold and ambitious agenda to make Scotland a world-leading STEM nation. The recommendations in the strategy are set out under four major themes: inspiration, excellence, connection and equity.<b><\/b><i><\/i><u><\/u><b><\/b><i><\/i><u><\/u><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\n<style>\n\t#hotspot-1048 .hotspots-image-container,\n\t#hotspot-1048 .leaflet-container {\n\t\tbackground: #ffffff\t}\n\n\t#hotspot-1048 .hotspots-placeholder,\n\t.featherlight .featherlight-content.lightbox-1048 {\n\t\tbackground: #8fa7bf;\n\t\tborder: 0 #8fa7bf solid;\n\t\tcolor: #000000;\n\t}\n\n\t#hotspot-1048 .hotspot-title,\n\t#hotspot-1048 .bc-product__title a,\n\t.featherlight .featherlight-content.lightbox-1048 .hotspot-title,\n\t.featherlight .featherlight-content.lightbox-1048 .bc-product__title a {\n\t\tcolor: #000000;\n\t}\n\n\t\t\t#hotspot-1048 .hotspot-style-1 {\n\t\t\tstroke-width: 3;\n\t\t\tfill: #ffffff;\n\t\t\tfill-opacity: 0;\n\t\t\tstroke: #ffffff;\n\t\t\tstroke-opacity: 0;\n\t\t}\n\t\t#hotspot-1048 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class=\"hotspot-info \" id=\"hotspot-hotspot-1048-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"hotspot-title\">Excellence<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hotspot-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Raleway\">To build the capacity of the education and training system to deliver\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #000000;font-family: Raleway\"><em style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">excellent<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Raleway\">\u00a0<\/span><acronym style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;border-left: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #000000;font-family: Raleway\" title=\"Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths\">STEM<\/acronym><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Raleway\">\u00a0learning so that\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: 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training offer with labour market need \u2013 both now and in the future \u2013 to support improved productivity and inclusive economic growth.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hotspot-info \" id=\"hotspot-hotspot-1048-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"hotspot-title\">Inspiration<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hotspot-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Raleway\">To\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #000000;font-family: Raleway\"><em style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">inspire<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Raleway\">children, young people and adults to study\u00a0<\/span><acronym style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;border-left: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #000000;font-family: Raleway\" title=\"Science, 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Raleway\" title=\"Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths\">STEM<\/acronym><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Raleway\">\u00a0so that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential and contribute to Scotland\u2019s economic prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>This resource has been created by Education Scotland to support the implementation of this national strategy and to help develop a coherent national approach to STEM professional learning. Our hope is that it empowers practitioners to improve their approaches to STEM (sciences, technologies, engineering and mathematics) education in their settings by:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Helping them navigate quickly and easily to high-quality resources, research and STEM professional learning<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Giving them access to an online directory of high-quality STEM support organisations<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Supporting effective whole setting and school approaches to STEM through our exciting new STEM Nation Award programme<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Sharing great STEM news, ideas and practice from across Scotland.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>We will liaise with practitioners to further develop this online resource. If you have any suggestions for improvements or new content then please get in touch by emailing <span style=\"color: #99cc00\"><strong><a style=\"color: #99cc00\" href=\"mailto:STEM@educationscotland.gov.scot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">STEM@educationscotland.gov.scot<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>Who is this for?<\/h1>\n<h3>This resource will be of use to all those with an interest in STEM education. However, as with the STEM Education and Training Strategy, the main targets sectors for the resource include practitioners from the following sectors:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Early learning and childcare<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Primary<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Additional support needs<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Secondary<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Community learning and development<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>School-based technical support staff<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Education Scotland&#8217;s STEM Nation online resource In 2017 the Scottish Government published the STEM Education and Training Strategy for Scotland &#8211; setting out its bold and ambitious agenda to make Scotland a world-leading STEM nation. 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