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Returning to STEM
Returning to STEM

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This free course was written by Clem Herman and Katie Chicot.

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Week 1

Figure 1: © Grigorios Maraitis/iStockphoto.com

Figure 3: Digital footprint

Figure 4: adapted from: Herman, C. (2015) ‘Returning to STEM: gendered factors affecting employability for mature women students’, Journal of Education and Work, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 571–91.

Week 2

Figure 1: CV © Andrew Popov/iStockphoto.com

Video: How to use LinkedIn privacy settings. Courtesy LinkedIn.

Week 3

Activity 1: extract from Cogent skills for science industries (2015) Our industries [Online]. Available at www.cogentskills.com/ about-cogent-skills/ our-industries

Figure 1: adapted from: UK Commission for Employment and Skills (2015) High level STEM skills requirements in the UK labour market [Online]. Available at www.gov.uk/ government/ publications/ high-level-stem-skills-requirements-in-the-uk-labour-market

Table 1: adapted from UK Commission for Employment and Skills (2015) High level STEM skills requirements in the UK labour market [Online]. Available at www.gov.uk/ government/ publications/ high-level-stem-skills-requirements-in-the-uk-labour-market

Table 2: adapted from: www.prospects.ac.uk

Week 4

Figure 1: adapted from: Office for National Statistics (2014) Characteristics of Home Workers, 2014 [Online]. Available at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ ons/ dcp171776_365592.pdf

Figure 2: adapted from Office for National Statistics (2014) Characteristics of Home Workers, 2014 [Online]. Available at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ ons/ dcp171776_365592.pdf

Figure 3: © eskaylim/iStockphoto.com

Week 5

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Figure 3: © ivCandy/iStockphoto.com

Table 1 adapted from: Silim, A. and Stirling, A. (2014) Women and Flexible Working – Improving female employment outcomes in Europe [Online]. Available at www.ippr.org/ files/ publications/ pdf/ women-and-flexible-working_Dec2014.pdf?noredirect=1

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Figure 6: © Mario Guti/iStockphoto.com

Week 7

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Figure 2: http://www.europass.nl/cartoons

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Week 8

Figure 4: © Alex Belomlinsky/Istockphoto.com

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