In 2017 the Scottish Government published the STEM Education and Training Strategy for Scotland – 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.

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:

• Helping them navigate quickly and easily to high-quality resources, research and STEM professional learning

• Giving them access to an online directory of high-quality STEM support organisations

• Supporting effective whole setting and school approaches to STEM through our exciting new STEM Nation Award programme

• Sharing great STEM news, ideas and practice from across Scotland.

In 2022, at STEM Education and Training Strategy: Refresh was published which highlighted  that the challenges and opportunities facing STEM education and training, initially identified in the
2017 STEM Strategy, remain broadly similar in
2022.

STEM Education and Training Strategy: refresh 2022