National HE STEM Programme 21 October 2008 Sarah Howls and Sarbani Banerjee.

National HE STEM Programme

21 October 2008

Sarah Howls and Sarbani Banerjee

HEFCE support to raise demand

Sustaining STEM

STEM demand raising projects

• Royal Academy of Engineering awarded £4.37 million for the London Engineering Project.

• Institute of Physics awarded £2.91 million for Stimulating Physics.

• A maths consortium led by the HE Academy subject centre for Maths, Stats and OR awarded £3.3 million for More Maths Grads.

• Royal Society of Chemistry awarded £5.25 million for Chemistry for our Future Project.

Current Regional Coverage

• Chemistry For Our Future• South East, Yorkshire & Humber, North East• Partial Rollout: North West, London, East Midlands

• London Engineering Project• London

• More Maths Grads• Yorkshire & Humber, West Midlands, London

• Stimulating Physics• South East, Yorkshire & Humber, East Midlands

Adapting to change

Moving to a National Programme

The changing environment

• DCSF 5-19 STEM Programme

• Increasing focus on STEM skills (Sainsbury review, Innovation Nation, Higher Education at Work)

• Employer engagement priorities

• Final report of the SIVS advisory group

Shaping the National Programme (1)

• Enhancement and enrichment – avoid duplication

• Minimise competition between subject strands

• Continuing focus on widening participation

• New and equal focus on skills and employer engagement

Shaping the National Programme (2)

• Impact and sustainability

• Sector owned and sector driven

• Location

• Governance

Identifying the host institution

An invitation

Call for proposals

Key criteria:

• Sustainable provision in the four key disciplines

• Senior management engagement and support

• Employer engagement

• Individual to lead National Programme bid development

• Outline of infrastructural support

• Costs

• Value added

A question of time

We don’t have much of it:

• Call issued this week

• Proposals for host HEI submitted noon Friday 21 November 2008

• Discussion with short listed institutions

• Final decision communicated by 28 November 2008

• National Programme bid to be submitted in spring 2009

• Board decision May 2009

National HE STEM ProgrammeContact: Sarah Howls, [email protected]

Alex Lewis, [email protected]