UK CURRICULUM & LEARNING


importance in a competitive world, there are lots of initiatives to spark the imagination of the future workforce, whether they are seeking a vocational career path or a more academic one.


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Employers in a range of sectors are seeking to benefit the economy and young people by offering everything from bursaries and prize money to education and training programmes and meaningful work experience. This approach is very much in line with the UK


government’s agenda. In January 2017, it published its Industrial Strategy Green Paper with two areas of focus being an investment in science, research and innovation and ‘developing skills’. The paper said, “We must become a more innovative economy and do more to commercialise our world leading science base to drive growth across the UK.” With the government promising an additional £2 billion per year investment for research and development by 2020–2021, its commitment to the sector is clear.


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THE SPACE SECTOR


In the UK, the vibrant space sector is keen to attract young talent. Now worth more than £13.7 billion a year, it directly supports more than 38,500 jobs and has trebled in size in real terms since 2000. The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has set out an ambitious target to grow the industry to £40 billion in 2030.


Key players include well-established giants such as Astrium, the space subsidiary of aerospace and defence company EADS, Inmarsat, the telecommunications and satellite company, and Airbus Defence and Space. These are just the types of organisation that will be keen to employ young people with science and maths qualifications, whatever academic or vocational route they take. Katherine Courtney, chief executive of the UKSA, said that there was no doubt that Tim Peake – the astronaut who, between 2015 and 2016 spent 186 days working on the International Space Station as part of a collaboration between the UKSA and the European Space Agency (ESA) – had inspired children. She hoped his expedition and


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