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


to develop the “creativity and critical thinking, making and problem-solving skills needed for the entrepreneurial and innovation-driven jobs of the future”.


“The demand for STEAM resources has picked up in the past few years as teachers recognise the importance of incorporating creative thinking and visual learning into their classrooms,” notes dean of faculty Tracie Costantino. “We are now able to begin to satisfy their hunger for connecting the arts and sciences in ways that resonate with students of all ages.”


Independent schools in the UK have a long history of excellence in teaching a broad range of subjects, and many are home to world-class art, design and performing-arts facilities. St Lawrence College in Ramsgate is investing in a Science,


new purpose-built Art and Design Technology


Centre ready for use in September 2018, demonstrating the importance the School places on these subjects and their relationship with each other. According to the school’s principal, Antony Spencer, “There is a general trend towards narrowing education down


and, unfortunately, it is often the arts and creative subjects that lose out. This is incredibly short-sighted, not just in the type of skills that young people will need to develop for the future, but also because of what education should be about - enabling young people to express and understand themselves. “We believe that people able to do this are more likely to succeed in the world of work of the future, where the speed of change in technology will place an even greater requirement upon creativity, imagination and communication.”


ADDRESSING UK SKILLS SHORTAGES Although there have been significant developments in the teaching of STEM or STEAM subjects in the independent sector recently, the state education system in the UK has been criticised for failing to keep up with the rest of the world in its delivery of science, technology and maths in its primary and secondary schools.


An increasing number of UK employers are also worried that they will not be able to recruit enough highly skilled employees, a concern that has been compounded by the Brexit


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