What are the benefits of STEM in Development?
We have helped many educational organisations with our STEM in Development approach.
Colleges tell us that the process has helped them develop:
- A robust analysis of the capabilities and strengths, employer demand and skills
needs across chosen STEM sectors (both regionally and nationally)
- A clear approach to drive the college forward to meet current and future skills
needs and STEM curriculum targets
- Defined USPs and impact measures for the college
- An outward-facing organisation engaged with all its stakeholders
- Industry-led curriculum development, fit for purpose for both learners and employers
STEM in Development
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) is crucial to the nation’s economy
and a major part of most College and University curriculums. But how many organisations
have a STEM strategy, enabling them to improve learner outcomes, respond to employer
needs and ultimately improve their market share and performance?
STEM in Development is about moving the college forward from the here and now to
where they aim to be in the future.
Summary
We will work with you to develop a college wide STEM strategy, embracing emerging
technologies, addressing the needs of industry, and focusing on a multi-disciplinary,
cross-curricular approach to STEM education and training. Working with curriculum
staff and college managers, we will identify your organisation’s key strengths and
unique selling points (USPs). We will help you distil your vision into a STEM manifesto,
providing the organisation with a platform to address responsibilities to the community,
individual learners, staff, industry and business and its own strategic priorities.
What does the process involve?
STEM in Development provides your institution with an integrated, coherent STEM
Strategy that can be used to plan curriculum planning, resourcing and budgeting.
NEF will work with your institution to review and analyse the following to create
a STEM strategy:
- Current STEM curriculum and how this aligns to cross-curricula STEM development
and employer/university needs (to enable more effective and attractive progression
routes to employment or higher education);
- Capabilities (identifying gaps and also opportunities for CPD offer);
- Delivery methods (considering e-learning and other blended learning solutions)
- Engagement strategies with learners, employers and staff
- Inhibitors and enablers to growth (capacity);
- Innovative practices (e.g. teaching and learning, engagement, CPD cascade work)
- STEM curriculum impact
What will STEM in Development deliver for you?
- An integrated, coherent, multi-disciplinary STEM strategy.
- A STEM Manifesto defines a clear direction of travel and the USPs in STEM for the
organisation. These USPs provide clear differentiators for your organisation, setting
you apart from competitors.
What is involved in the process?
STEM in Development is a five stage process as outlined below:
