Analysis of 2022 GCSE Core STEM Entrants
This year was notable since it was the year that GCSE students sat exams under normal conditions following the pandemic. As such we will compare their results with the 2019 […]
Analysis of 2022 A-Level Results
2022 A-Level students were the first since before the COVID-19 pandemic to sit their exams in a hall. This has probably contributed the drop in the number of girls achieving […]
Updated Workforce Statistics to Dec 2021
The latest government workforce data as of end of Dec 2021 shows a positive increase in the percentage of women making up the Core-STEM workforce at 26.6% of the total, […]
Analysis Of 2021 GCSE Core STEM Entrants
Record STEM GCSE grades for girls although numbers opting for non-core STEM subjects fell considerably. Girls achieved record top grades in STEM GCSEs with 55% of girls achieving A*-A *(grades […]
Analysis Of 2021 A-Level Core STEM Entrants
Gap between girls and boys awarded A* in Core-STEM subjects widens Girls continued to outperform in Core STEM A-levels this year with 52.2% awarded A or A* across all subjects […]
Annual Core-STEM Stats Round Up: 2019-20
There are two lessons which can be drawn from what’s happened in the last year in core-STEM, based on statistics for education, the workforce and boardrooms. Firstly, incremental progress, although […]
Analysis Of 2020 A-Level Core STEM Entrants – Number Of Core STEM* A-Levels Completed By Girls Rises Again
Each of the Core STEM* subjects are showing progress in the right direction with increasing proportions of females taking each of the subjects. An extra 632 Core STEM* A-Levels have […]
2019 Workforce Statistics – One million women in STEM in the UK
Summary Introduction For the first time ever, there are over one million women working in core-STEM roles in the UK. With the target for 2020 hit, we are looking ahead […]
Women on Boards 2019
Overall, when it comes to getting women into the boardroom the trends for FTSE 100 companies are positive, with more women overall, more women in executive roles and more companies […]
Core STEM Graduates 2019
Introduction The number of core-STEM female higher education qualification achievements (Levels 4-6 – henceforth referred to as ‘graduates’ for simplicity) increased between 2018 and 2019, continuing the trend of recent […]