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STEM Careers Quiz. Quiz Question 1. How much more do you earn if you have maths ‘A’ level even if your employer doesn’t know?. 2.5 % 5.5% 10%. Quiz Question 1. How much more do you earn if you have maths ‘A’ level even if your employer doesn’t know?. c) 10%.
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Quiz Question 1 How much more do you earn if you have maths ‘A’ level even if your employer doesn’t know? • 2.5 % • 5.5% • 10%
Quiz Question 1 How much more do you earn if you have maths ‘A’ level even if your employer doesn’t know? c) 10% Both graduates and non-graduates who took maths A-level ended up earning on average 10 per cent more than those of similar ability and background who did not. CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 1999
Quiz Question 2 • Where does Britain come in the list of largest • manufacturing countries? • 6th • 16th • 26th
Quiz Question 2 Where does Britain come in the list of largest manufacturing countries? 6th UK is the world’s 6th largest manufacturing base, The industry employs 3 million people, creates 50% of UK exports and accounts for 75% of all business funded research and development. EEF 2009
Quiz Question 3 • What percentage of employers expect problems • getting the right STEM recruits? • 15% • 43% • 59%
Quiz Question 3 What percentage of employers expect problems getting the right STEM recruits? C) 59% Despite the recession, 45% employers say they are already having difficulty recruiting staff with skills in STEM. Even more companies (59%) expect to have difficulty finding STEM-skilled people in the next 3 years. CBI 2010
Quiz Question 4 • How many of the 650 MPs in the new parliament • have a ‘science’ background? • 31 • 71 • 101
Quiz Question 4 How many of the 650 MPs in the new parliament have a ‘science’ background? b) 71 Estimates suggest that overall the number of MPs with science backgrounds has fallen from 86 to 71. Times Higher Education 2010
Quiz Question 5 • 8.7% of the UK Engineering Profession are • women. Where do we come in the list of 28 • European countries surveyed? • 14th • 20th • 28th (ie lowest percentage in Europe)
Quiz Question 5 8.7% of the UK Engineering Profession are women. Where do we come in the list of 28 European countries surveyed? c) 28th Click on to see the graph ..
Quiz Question 5 *Figures are statistically less reliable hence need to be treated with caution Source: UKRC’s analysis of the European Labour Force Survey (2007)
Quiz Question 6 • In 2009, did a Brit win a Nobel Prize for …. • Chemistry? • Physics? • Medicine?
Quiz Question 6 • In 2009, did a Brit win a Nobel Prize for …. • Chemistry? • Physics? • Medicine? HINT - IT’S A TRICK QUESTION!
Quiz Question 6 • In 2009, did Britain win a Nobel Prize for …. • Chemistry? Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Born in India, works at Cambridge University) • Physics? Charles K. Kao (Born in China, worked at University of London) • Medicine? Jack William Szostak (Born in Britain, working in US)