EngineeringUK has launched EUK Education, a new brand designed to offer the teaching and careers community support and resources to inspire more young people to get into STEM and the many diverse career paths available.
Engineering and technology employ 6.3 million people in the UK, accounting for 19 per cent of all jobs, but the sector is facing a huge skills and labour shortage. More young people from all backgrounds are needed to create a diverse workforce and need to be made aware of the wide range of STEM roles available and the many different routes into these careers.
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The new EUK Education site is a ‘one-stop shop’ that brings together STEM programmes and the best free STEM education and career resources that were previously hosted by EngineeringUK.
‘Teachers and career leaders are at the heart of everything we do,’ said Eleanor Eyre, head of careers at EngineeringUK. ‘We know from our close work with schools and colleges the many challenges out there. We want to support you in the vital STEM work you do.
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‘We hope having all of our fantastic free resources in one place – from our flagship annual event, The Big Bang Fair, to our new Climate Schools Programme and careers and STEM resources – will really help in your role of inspiring more young people into rewarding, interesting and lucrative STEM careers,’ she concluded.
EUK Education offers:
- Up-to-date information about careers in engineering and tech, how to get into them and what skills employers need.
- Careers resources and activities to get young people thinking about a possible future in technology and engineering.
- Free programmes to support teachers deliver engaging lessons that help embed curriculum content while showing how it links to real jobs.
- Opportunities to meet and hear from inspiring people working in STEM jobs and the companies they work for.
- Funding to run STEM drop-down days, access costed programmes and give students more opportunities.
- Role models and inspiring professionals to whom school students can relate.
- Signposting to quality-assured outreach activities, available online and in person.
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EUK Education brings together everything that EngineeringUK does for teachers, career leaders and young people – the engineering and tech professionals of the future.
Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, EUK’s annual celebration of engineering, science and tech, takes place once again between 11 and 15 November with the theme ‘Power up your passion’, showing young people that engineering isn’t just hardhats and construction, but is all about problem solving, innovation, creativity and making a difference in a wide range of careers. Linking young people to STEM employers, the week-long campaign features resources from ‘day in the life’ films on engineers to a panel where young people can chat to engineers about their work.
‘We hope having all our fantastic free resources and programmes, like our new Climate Schools Programme, Energy Quest and Tomorrow’s Engineers plus STEM resources and careers, will really help the teaching and careers community – and ultimately the sector – in inspiring more young people into rewarding, interesting and lucrative STEM careers,’ said EngineeringUK chief executive Hilary Leevers.
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The new EUK Engineering site can be found here.