A panel of leading science and education experts are spearheading a project aimed at overhauling the way science and maths are taught in schools.
Photo: ALAMYA panel led by Sir Martin Taylor, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, is conducting a three-year research project setting out a blueprint for world class science and maths teaching in Britain.
The committee, which includes Sir Tim Hunt, the Nobel Prize winner, and Prof Lord Robert Winston, the fertility expert and television presenter, will propose “radical” changes to address concerns by employers that schools are failing to equip pupils with the skills needed in the workplace.
Its findings will be published in a series of reports in the run-up to the next general election in 2015, with the intention of setting the science and education agenda as parties prepare their manifestos.
Sir Martin told the Telegraph: “Other countries are producing very maths and science-literate pupils, so we have got to ensure we get a really good maths and science-literate population and at the same time continue to produce our Nobel Prize winners.
“We have got to try to think radically, or at least think of radical alternatives, and then we have got to think of the ways and means to get there.”
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