The STEM sector has been riding a seemingly endless wave of growth. As humankind continues to reach for the stars, the work undertaken in tech, research and design is expanding exponentially. This has led to the creation of new job types and also to immense skills gaps across the sector. Employer demand for STEM qualifications and skills is high and will continue to increase in the future.
STEM is more than just a group of subjects it more closely reflects a skills set. It uses logic to creatively solve problems.
With STEM skills, you can make a big contribution to many of the big challenges facing society today. From designing visual for a new film, to working as a physiotherapist in a hospital, to inventing a new hi-tech health scanner, to manufacturing a new mobile phone, to writing the code for a new software programme or putting new satellites into space, there are thousands of exciting and well-paid opportunities.
There are different routes into STEM careers at different educational levels, from level 5 and 6, through apprenticeships or from relevant degrees and master programmes.
STEM crosses all career sectors and nearly every job in the future will require STEM/STEAM skills. In this page we are bringing together information on some of the more obvious STEM sectors.
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Physical and Mathematical Sciences is a broad sector, with many potential career paths for those with qualifications and suitable skillsets, including medical work, engineering, teaching, finance and technology.
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This Engineering Technology Management programme was created to provide learners with an essential combination of engineering and management...
If you’d like to qualify for in-demand quantitative roles in the insurance and financial industry, the Common Entry...
Analytical chemistry deals with the great variety of methods used to identify and quantify the chemical components of materials, while...
During this course, you’ll learn coding and programming, and get to grips with databases, operating systems and networks. But you’ll...
Engineers can be found in many fields from high-tech industry and medicine to financial services, energy aware technologies and biotechnology. If...
This programme covers all the technologies needed to produce energy and in particular electrical energy, from renewable sources, to monitor and...
When you study Biomedical Engineering, you not only learn how the body works and becomes injured, but you come to understand how medical devices...
This degree focuses on the infrastructure that powers the movement of data about the Internet. Students get an in-depth understanding of computer...
Can you imagine designing and building a better electric vehicle, jet engine or wind turbine? Maybe you’ve figured out a way to improve...
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Control engineers research, design, develop and manage the equipment used to monitor and control a wide range of systems and machinery.
A Polymer (or Plastics) technician works in the in the manufacturing sector in a range of industries.
Provides technical assistance to chemists by setting up equipment, preparing and carrying out experiments and taking measurements.
Computer games programmers turn the ideas and specifications of games designers into games that people can actually play.
Conducts surveys of property and natural resources such as buildings, land and sea.
Discovers new fragrance chemicals, improves how fragrance ingredients are produced and analyses fragrances and their ingredients.
Work may involve importing, processing, saw milling and treating wood or the manufacture of wood products and woodworking machinery, and may also act as managers within the timber industry.
Plans and carries out experiments and investigations to increase scientific knowledge in a range of areas such as life sciences, including physiology, pharmacology, microbiology, plant sciences.
Advises on the management, regulation and control of the noises and vibrations that surround us in the home, the workplace and the environment.
Performs repairs and maintenance on construction or building site machinery.
Artificial intelligence (AI) engineers are responsible for developing, programming and training the complex networks of algorithms that make up AI so that they can function like a human brain. This role requires combined expertise in software development, programming, data science and data engineering.
Study of invertebrate animal fossils, such as mollusks, echinoderms, and others. Vertebrate Palaeontology: The study of vertebrate fossils, from primitive fishes to mammals. Human Palaeontology (Paleoanthropology): The study of prehistoric human and proto-human fossils.