EXCELLENCE IN UK EDUCATION ...Delivering skills for the future


director-general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), warned of a UK “brain drain” and stated firmly that “EU students should be free to study here”.


In a move that was largely welcomed by UK business and higher education, Universities Minister Jo Johnson gave his assurance that EU students applying for places at English universities in the 2017/18 academic year would continue to be eligible for student loans and grants – and would be for the duration of their courses.


INNOVATIONS IN STEM TEACHING One college that is appealing to international students on the strength of its distinctive STEM offering for gifted pupils seeking a place at a top university in the UK is the newly opened independent National Mathematics and Science College (NMSC), in Coventry. The NMSC is a coeducational school specialising in maths, further maths, physics, chemistry, biology, computing and economics.


Chairman Dr Martin Stephen, former high master of


St Paul’s School, London, and The Manchester Grammar School, established the college with the vision of providing a world-class education in STEM subjects for sixth-formers looking to secure a place at a good UK university. “By transforming a vision of a future-proof digital-learning ecosystem into reality, the college will


enable students to reach higher and achieve more,” says Dr Stephen. He is well qualified to represent the school for high-performing students, having recently co-written his most recent book on the subject of education, Educating the More Able Student.


Headmaster of the college Dr Philip Limbert echoes


Dr Stephen’s comment about the importance of STEM as a springboard to career success. “We’re passionate about nurturing exceptional, independent thinkers,” he says, “who are happy and confident individuals, and equipping them with the skills and knowledge to progress to only the best universities and into successful careers, to become leaders of their generation.”


Another leading education establishment recently broke new ground in encouraging girls to study STEM subjects. In 2015, Marymount International School London, a Catholic boarding school for girls, became the first school in the UK to establish a fully equipped ‘fab lab’ (fabrication laboratory), a state-of-the-art workshop equipped with an array of flexible, computer-controlled tools that can make almost anything. Marymount uses its fab lab to teach computer programming, coding, robotics and design – areas that straddle the disciplines of mathematics, physics and technology as well as art and design. Read more in Giving Girls the Digital Bug, on page 30.


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