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STEM Subjects: Further Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure young people from all backgrounds can pursue a career in STEM.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 9 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 13 Jan 2026
Answer: 19 Jan 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

9 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure young people from all backgrounds can pursue a career in STEM.
13 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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19 Jan 2026
Answer published
Following the Curriculum and Assessment review, our new national curriculum and GCSEs will have improved coherence, specificity, sequencing, and will be grounded in the most important knowledge and disciplinary skills.We will take forward many subject-spe...

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