Tag Archives: STEM

Kristen Foster-Marks, Senior Software Engineer at Pluralsight Flow looks at how businesses can encourage the honing of STEM skills outside of academia. STEM efforts are too often associated with traditional education, such as school, college and university education, rather than with the myriad alternative learning approaches that better meet the …

 Lenovo has announced plans to double its investment in Research and Development (R&D) with plans to appoint 12,000 R&D professionals around the world over the next three years. The company has also set a vision to achieve net-zero by 2050. Lenovo’s CEO outlined the Group’s mission for the year ahead …

 4D Data Centres, has embarked on a gold sponsorship with I’m an Engineer, a student-led online engagement activity which connects school students with working network engineers from across the UK. An online STEM enrichment activity, the event has two objectives, to demonstrate to children that engineers and scientists are people …

Charlie Sell of Arrows Group Global is offering free mentoring and training to increase the flow of rising young talent in the channel. With sixteen years of experience in the tech recruitment industry, Charlie can see objectively that when it comes to increasing the numbers of women and minority groups …

Having undergone the struggles of growing up in war-torn Afghanistan, Okta developer Sara Daqiq, argues that more female representation is key towards the progression of the industry… Stats today show that only 15 per cent of Engineering graduates are female. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) has, in the past, been male dominant, which in …

Inspiring the next generation is clearly important, but Softwire CEO Zoe Cunningham believes the skills gap and gender imbalance needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.

Of the major STE(A)M skill categories for which jobs were posted in 2017, 87% were IT related.

“Developing young talent in STEM should be a priority and start as early as primary and secondary education,” says Protolabs.

Britain’s future economic growth largely rests on its computing prowess. Rob Horgan finds out what is being done to ensure the conveyor belt of talent remains in full swing.

Among teachers, 29% of men think STEM careers are more for boys than girls, and 16% of women feel the same.