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    Weekly news round up: 30/6/26

    By: Tim Bradbury
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    The Week in Education: What mattered for STEM teachers 24–30 June 2026 • UK education, STEM-first (but not STEM-only) A teacher-facing long-read pulling together key stories from Tes, Schools Week, FE Week and the EEF. Duplicate coverage has been consolidated, with links to the original stories. Note: BBC Education pages were blocked for automated ...

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    Who Gets to Be a 'STEM Person'?

    By: Alex More
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    STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) is by design an inclusive acronym. It pulls together four separate disciplines and groups them as one. This is why I love STEM as a concept. But when you take a closer look at the research into STEM-related fields, from education to careers and into industry, a gap as wide as time starts to appear, which ...

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    Weekly news round up: 23/6/26

    By: Tim Bradbury
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    The Week in Education: What mattered for STEM teachers 17–23 June 2026 • UK education, STEM-first (but not STEM-only) An educator-facing long-read pulling together key stories from Tes, Schools Week, FE Week and the wider education sector. Duplicate coverage has been consolidated, with links to the original stories. Quick map (if you only ...

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    Talking about AI: why oracy matters in an AI-infused world

    By: Tim Bradbury
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    In the final episode of STEM Community Live: AI Sprints Season 2, Alex More was joined by Amy Howe from Voice 21, alongside teachers and leaders from Cornerstone Academy Trust and Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust, to explore how structured talk can help young people make sense of artificial intelligence. The session focused on Talking about AI ...

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    Reflections on supporting students with SEND in science

    By: Louise Herbert
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    Science is a wonderfully rich subject - but for many students with SEND, it can also be a maze of abstract ideas, unfamiliar equipment, and sensory overload. This year at STEM Learning, we’ve been exploring how to make that maze easier to navigate. We started our thinking by reflecting on how science is different as a subject and what it is that makes ...

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