The RAEng partners with Boeing UK

The partnership will enable the Royal Academy of Engineering to recruit four specialist Stem teachers to work in up to 40 schools

The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has announced a partnership with Boeing UK that will help improve school pupils’ experience of Stem subjects in up to 40 state maintained secondary schools across the UK.

The partnership will enable the RAEng to recruit four specialist Stem teachers in 2017 and 2018 to work in up to 40 schools to support teachers in delivering an engaging and inspiring curriculum. The specialist teachers will form part of the RAEng’s Connecting Stem Teachers programme established in 2011, currently active in 550 schools across the UK and has reached over 66,500 students.

The programme aims to create a national network of support for teachers across all Stem subjects, ensuring they have the knowledge and confidence to engage a greater number and wider spectrum of school students.

Boeing UK will also support the development of high quality Stem teaching and learning resources for use across the Connecting Stem Teachers network.

Dr Rhys Morgan, RAEng’s director of engineering and education, said: “Boeing is a major presence in UK engineering and this is an exemplar investment in supporting the skills capabilities the country needs as it adjusts to the changed economic landscape. This partnership will help teachers to inspire greater numbers of young people to pursue Stem careers and help address the skills crisis faced by UK industry.”

Sir Michael Arthur, president of Boeing Europe and managing director of Boeing UK and Ireland, added: “In industry we rely on highly-skilled young people choosing to work with us and innovative training and educational programmes that reach all areas of the UK.

“Those are crucial to encourage grass-roots talent for the future workforce,” he added.