We are proud to say that we have retained our STEM status for another 3 years.
We are delighted to announce that, after a lengthy application process and a detailed validation event involving staff, students and employers across Maths, Science, Engineering, Health Care and Childhood Studies, Digital Technologies and Music Media and Performing Arts, we have achieved a renewal of our STEM Assured status for another 3 years!
Clare Russell, our Principal and CEO added, “We are delighted that we have achieved our renewal of the STEM Assured status for another 3 years! It was a lengthy application process, but all went very well, with a detailed validation event involving staff, students, and employers across Maths, Science, Engineering, Health Care and Childhood Studies, Digital Technologies and Music Media and Performing Arts. A huge thank you to everyone involved!”.
Launched in 2010, STEM Assured is the only standard that provides independent, industry-backed validation of the quality of an institution’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics provision. Achieving STEM Assured status means that we have demonstrated:
- our STEM provision is consistently of a high quality, and is aligned with current and anticipated industry workforce requirements for knowledge, skills and competencies
- our provision offers a multi-disciplinary context to students to reflect real world needs and industrial settings and scenarios
- our employability and related transferrable skills are embedded into the curriculum and reflect our students’ journeys
- our commitment to continual improvement and innovation in our STEM related provision, to ensure that we keep pace with rapid advances in technology and changing jobs markets and profiles
- we have clear engagement processes with employers and key stakeholders within our ecosystem.
A huge well done and thank you to everyone involved. To view our STEM provision, click here.