Addressing Student Burnout Could Solve Falling Math Scores, Reveals Global Survey
Top U.S. and U.K. high school math students offer insights, solutions to boost math performance With math scores falling globally, top high school math students…
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MathWorks Enhances Academic Research with New Unlimited Scaling and Collaboration Opportunities in MATLAB
MathWorks today announced expanded access to MATLAB Parallel Server to help speed academic research. Now all researchers and students at academic institutions with a MathWorks Campus-Wide License…
The Science Museum explores a future driven by autonomous vehicles
For decades, autonomous vehicles have been heralded as a new technology that could change the way we live our lives. Driverless: Who is in control?…
£125m Aerospace Sector Deal to Develop ‘Future Flight’ and Increase STEM Skills
The government has just yesterday (6 Dec) announced an aerospace sector deal as part of their industrial strategy. This deal looks to build on the…
NMiTE – the UK’s first new uni for 30 years
Today sees the opening of NMiTE (New Model in Technology and Engineering), the UK’s first completely new university in more than 30 years. It’s mission:…
Spring Statement comment – despite investment in UK education, the skills gap continues to be an issue
Responding to today’s Spring Statement, Dr Coorous Mohtadi, Senior Academic Technical Specialist, MathWorks, argues that despite increased investment in UK education, the skills gap continues…
Project based learning vs. flipped learning – which is best for closing the STEM skills gap?
In January, a report into STEM skills by the National Audit Office found that the returns from work to address skills gap in science, technology,…
Increase in Uptake of Maths Degrees Pointless Without Project Based Learning
According to the latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas), Maths was one of six subjects whose popularity grew this year, suggesting…
How to improve the quality AND quantity of STEM students
This year, STEM professionals were looking forward to the news of an increase in the number of A-Level students who had succeeded in passing their…