• Question: What is STEM? and how does it help the jobs. Thank you

    Asked by izzyc on 22 Nov 2025.
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      Eleanor Yates answered on 22 Nov 2025:

      STEM stands for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics. These areas tend to be viewed as good to go into as there is higher demand for people and better job security than some other subjects. As the learning tends to be very practical, it is also a great way to develop transferrable skills that you could apply to other job roles.

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    lucyrycroftsmith commented on :

    Excellent question! STEM is used as a shorter way of saying ‘Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths’ and can often be adapted into ‘STEAM’ which also includes ‘Art’ or ‘the Arts’ (drama, textiles, fashion, painting, graphic design, video, etc.). It is a way of categorising certain types of skill or disciplines; we previously might have just said ‘the sciences’ but people might not have meant exactly the same thing by that.

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    melissau commented on :

    STEM is a quick way of saying ‘Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths’ – so that we can talk about all the opportunities for work and research in a really broad range of areas. Sometimes it gets adapted to STEAM (so that Arts are included) or STEMM (so that Medicine is included, because sometimes it can be forgotten that Medicine and Medical Sciences cover a large range of science-related topics too)