In today's incredibly connected, knowledge and skills-driven world, organizations are increasingly competing on talent. This is more so in the high-tech industry where technology is moving at an unprecedented pace, giving rise to a growing education…

In a previous blog, I wrote about the reproducibility crisis in research, how it is impacting the quality of research and public trust in it, and how the community of knowledge can address this crisis. In this blog, I will focus on measures of performance…

The ability to reproduce experimental results reported in academic and scientific publications sits at the heart of the scientific method. Put simply, if experimental results cannot be reproduced by third-parties, for any reason, then the scientific merit…

Research and publishing are two vital elements of modern society and have underpinned the unprecedented growth in human knowledge and progress since the invention of Gutenberg's printing press nearly 600 years ago. The more recent digital revolution has…

Last month saw the successful conclusion of the Arm-enabled Cornell Cup final, held against the majestic backdrop of the rockets and space vehicles at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  The Arm-enabled Cornell Cup is an embedded design competition…

Co-authored by Nicholas Sample, Arm School Program Manager, and Anna Malan, from Team Arm

One of the principal reasons for founding the Arm School Program is to close the STEM skills gap, which is the gap between the skills required by business and industry…

In January this year Ashesi University, Ghana was one of the first academic institutions in Africa to adopt our textbook, Embedded Systems Fundamentals with Arm Cortex-M based Microcontrollers: A Practical Approach. We spoke to Francis Gatsi, Lecturer in…

The Skills Gap

The gap between the STEM skills required by industry, and those acquired by learners on their journey through education, is a key concern for any business which derives value from technological innovation. Across Europe, 40% of employers…