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18 Nov 2008
Developing STEM in the East Midlands – The Race to the TopFriday 28th November 2008, Rolls-Royce plc, Derby Rising enrolment numbers for maths and physics teacher training testify to the potential popularity science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) could enjoy in the future. As business, educationalists, and regional government representatives gather in Derby on 28th November for the third East Midlands STEM Partnership Forum, the debate will centre on how this training momentum can be maintained and how the emerging students can be supported in their desire to pursue STEM careers.
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14 Nov 2008
It started out as an investigation for a science lesson – but the results were something altogether more significant. After all, it cannot be every day that work done by a group of teenagers in Hinckley is used for scientific analysis around the world. The A-level geology students at the town's John Cleveland College made some of the world's best recordings of huge aftershocks following last month's earthquake in Pakistan.
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04 Nov 2008
Leading UK Scientists back Ambassadors programme to inspire future generations and stop the STEM skills shortage. Scientists and engineers working in the UK today think that the need to tackle climate change is the biggest single challenge they and their peers around the world face in the next decade, according to a new survey published today (17 October).
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30 Oct 2008
Next month the East Midlands Development Agency (emda) funded Space Academy will be asking that very question to 230 sixth form students from across the East Midlands as they attend CareersFest 2008 at the National Space Centre on the 7 November.
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27 Oct 2008
From October 30 to 31 Nottingham is proud to be hosting the 5th national Science City Summit. As one of the nation’s six Science Cities, Nottingham will be drawing scientists from all over the UK to take part in the event.
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23 Oct 2008
Over 116 sixth-form students and 29 engineers will get to grips with real engineering challenges over the coming months as part of this year’s East Midlands Engineering Education Scheme (England) (EESE).
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14 Oct 2008
Young scientists, engineers and technologists across the region are being challenged to show their creativity skills in a schools’ competition at the 5th Annual Celebration of Schools’ Science and Engineering in the East Midlands.
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10 Oct 2008
Budding young engineers are being invited to invent exciting new products in a competition from the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) award-winning Faraday programme. Faraday is a unique resource for teachers of science, design and technology, engineering and maths. The competition calls for inventors to develop a new product using an intelligent material called d3o. The company which produces d3o operates at the cutting edge of materials development and application.