STEM Strategies: Student Ambassadors and Equality in Higher Education

More skilled young people are urgently needed in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the UK.This book indicates how policy can be developed to encourage young people to consider STEM careers. It challenges widely held assumptions about how role models help raise aspirations and support progression to Higher Education and asks whether role models really do encourage pupils, particularly girls, into STEM careers.The research presented here examined New Labour’s widening partic...