Category Archives: STEM

Anne Milton and her predecessors failed to improve STEM education

Posted on February 13, 2019 by ianchisnall

Over the last few weeks in Parliament there have been a couple of statements regarding STEM and Further Education issues. They are vital matters as up until now our STEM provision in this country has been heavily supplemented from visitors … Continue reading →

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Government needs a reality check from businesses

Posted on December 6, 2018 by ianchisnall

Trying to persuade our Government to use joined up thinking is not easy, particularly when they are trying to work across different departments. However even individual departments seem incapable of this. On Tuesday one of the DUP MPs, Gregory Campbell … Continue reading →

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An end to transportation as we know it

Posted on November 6, 2018 by ianchisnall

On Sunday Morning, the interview by Andrew Marr with Arron Banks introduced an opinion that was something of a surprise to me, but then I confess I believe that leaving the EU is a mistake. Arron stated that the Financial … Continue reading →

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A day of explosions helped by a year of engineering

Posted on November 5, 2018 by ianchisnall

Every month or week, indeed most days of the year are marked as being a time to focus on particular events or themes. Today and tonight must be one of the few anniversaries or days to mark that almost everyone … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year

Posted on September 3, 2018 by ianchisnall

This week is the beginning of the academic year for most schools and shortly Universities will start their year with Freshers weeks. Although the numbers of students across the whole age spectrum is only modest, the impact on most of … Continue reading →

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The challenge of forming reliable infrastructure

Posted on September 1, 2018 by ianchisnall

Based on the news about Crossrail that has emerged in the last 24 hours, the project which was approved in 2007 and began construction two years later was due to take 9 years to complete. The fact that it has … Continue reading →

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A hollow sounding Industrial Strategy

Posted on July 19, 2018 by ianchisnall

On Tuesday two events took place in the House of Commons that displayed how incoherent the Government is over one of its high profile ‘solutions’ to the needs of businesses for trained individuals that the Government has claimed is needed. … Continue reading →

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Lets change the nature of Parliament

Posted on June 29, 2018 by ianchisnall

According to this post on the Government website, John Bercow would like to encourage more engineers and scientists to become MPs which would clearly make a huge difference to the way in which Parliament works. The big barrier however is not … Continue reading →

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Do we need radical changes in education?

Posted on June 5, 2018 by ianchisnall

The speed and cost with which change takes place in our education system is woeful based on two specific and current examples. The introduction of T-Level courses which are the vocational and technical equivalent of A levels had been discussed … Continue reading →

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There is a clear need for effective data

Posted on May 31, 2018 by ianchisnall

I work for a small company and occasionally we get a phone call from an agency ringing on behalf of the Government wanting to gather data on our work and impact. If we have the data, we will share it … Continue reading →

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