Question follow-through · 9376
STEM Subjects
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to promote STEM subjects in state-maintained secondary schools.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to promote STEM subjects in state-maintained secondary schools.
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2024
Answer published
High quality teaching is the factor that makes the biggest difference to a child’s education, and therefore ensuring we have sufficient science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers is crucial to the department’s efforts to promote STEM...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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