In 2018, the WISE Young Professionals’ Board ran an Essay Competition for 10-15 year olds to write 500 words on an inspirational woman, past or present, in Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths. The WYPB liaised with a number of schools and we received a fantastic number of applications in both ...

Girls need to understand the difference a STEM career can have on society and see role models WISE launches online career resource to help it reach 200,000 girls Shortage of 173,400 STEM workers across the UK at a cost of £1.5bn per year As WISE, the campaign to improve gender ...

2018 over 900,000 women in core STEM occupations 200,000 women with STEM qualifications will reach working age within the next 2 years Critical mass of 30% female employment within reach in several core STEM job roles Employers need to accelerate the drive to reach target of 1 million women in ...

Sir Gerry Berragan, Chief Executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships today launched the first sector-specific apprenticeship for the metals recycling industry. The Metal Recycling General Operative (MRGO) is a level 2 apprenticeship open to employees of any age and is a 12-18-month assessment covering a number of industry areas that reflect the complexities ...

More than 20 physics undergraduates from 14 universities across the UK attended our Physics Undergraduate Conference on 8 October to explore the exciting world of physics.  Imogen Morland (Heriot-Watt University) won the award for Best Physics post associated with WISE – presented by WISE Young Women’s Board Member, Sabrina Castiglione. ...

Following a successful second year, NHS England has announced four new candidates for the 2018 Chief Scientific Officer’s (CSO) WISE Fellowship starting in September. The programme is launched each year on International Woman’s Day and this year attracted over 50 applications from female healthcare scientists who will act as role models to ...

The Royal Academy of Engineering launched a new season of This is Engineering films on Monday 10 September. These showcase the experiences of seven more young engineers from a variety of engineering jobs and educational pathways and demonstrate to young people from all backgrounds that they can follow what they ...

WISE is delighted to see that the popularity of core STEM subjects at A level is soaring, especially amongst girls. Computing A-level, for example, was taken by 48% more girls in 2018 than in 2017. Despite the overall number of A Level entries across all subjects falling, there has been ...

Gender pay gap reporting has been a catalyst for conversations within organisations and beyond about the participation of women in business. When WISE looked at the published data for our corporate members, we found huge variation. Companies have not reported consistently, some report in different entities and although the reports ...