Today is International Women in Engineering Day, where people across the globe celebrate the outstanding work achieved by women engineers, and encouraging more women to consider STEM professions. Over the years, we have seen a number of inspirational…
Nicholas Sample, Senior Manager on the Arm School Program (ASP), presents a round-up of recent developments from the team, including the release of teaching and learning resources on the Arm School Program website.
The Arm School…
George Wort has been working with the Micro:bit Educational Foundation as part of his graduate rotation in the Arm School Program (ASP), from March until September of 2019. This has been an exciting opportunity for ASP to collaborate with the foundation. It…
The Arm School Program (ASP) recently had the pleasure of working with the Micro:bit Educational Foundation on a suite of teaching and learning resources to support the #GlobalGoals in partnership with #unicef and #worldslargestlesson.
The main aim of…
Apurva Varma, Regional Manager, Arm University Program, India, reports on the successful signing of the Memorandum of Understanding with the AICTE with Arm to improve technical education in India.
The Arm University…
The Arm University Program have been giving donations of Arm Education Kits including teaching materials and software to universities across India since 2013. One university that has benefited from this, is Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS…
Joshua Lowe, winner of Young Coder of the Year, speaks to Anna Malan about EduBlocks, the block-based Python tool helping children around the world to improve their coding skills.
Since launching our partnership with Uptree two years ago, we have accomplished…
In August 2019 Arm Education Media will be publishing our newest title, System-on-Chip Design with Arm Cortex-M Processors, written by Joseph Yiu, Distinguished Engineer, Embedded Technology, at Arm.
This is a new line of products from Arm Education Media…
Arm has a long history of support for schools and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education programmes, to inspire, inform and engage young people and aim to close the STEM skills gap by tackling the barriers of uptake of STEM…
STEM skills are essential for workforces in a modern and innovation-oriented society. Since 2015, the State Council and the Ministry of Education in China have issued a number of policy documents to promote the development of STEM education across the…
Hao Xue, Arm Education Manager for APAC, reports on the successful launch of an Innovation Lab in Chongqing.
The Arm School Program’s (ASP) approach to partnership is an extension…
Arm has become a founding supporter of a research project by The Royal Society to investigate the future of the schools mathematics curriculum, it was announced last week. Arm’s involvement has been driven by the Arm School Program (ASP), as part…
Walking along the riverfront of Detroit one Wednesday morning in April, I was overtaken by a group of teenage boys dressed head to toe in fluorescent pink suits. About 10 minutes later, I found myself holding the door for a young girl carrying a kitted…
Since May 2018 the Arm School Program (ASP) has been developing innovative educational resources to better support teachers and learners studying Computer Science.
Education is a complex and fractious market to navigate with many stakeholders and divergent…
One of the United Nations' seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) "Goal 4: Quality Education" aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all by 2030.
The Arm School Program (ASP) recently ran a phenomenal maker day in collaboration Outwood Grange Academies Trust. Year 8 learners (ages 12-13) designed a ‘smart street light’ in the Computing lessons using an ASP lesson plan and resources and the best…
In 2017, Team Arm piloted a partnership with Uptree, the professional network for young people. The pilot was a resounding success; we gained a fascinating insight into the mindset of Generation-Z and were able to play a part in steering more young people…
With an investment of £84m by the UK government the National Centre for Computing Education is unique opportunity to transform computing education in the UK. Led by a consortium of the British Computing Society, the Raspberry Pi…
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…
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…
Arm Education Media’s textbook, Embedded Systems Fundamentals, has been selected by Jisc, via competitive tender, for its e-Books for FE program.
Arm Education Media was recently selected as one of several publishers to contribute to Jisc’s ongoing…
Late May sees the annual Pint of Science events take place in pubs (and other somewhat unusual venues) around Cambridge, the UK and indeed the rest of the world. Designed to combine the city’s love of learning with its love of libation, the event…
What’s better than a bio-inspired, crawling robot? A spider bot that you can build yourself, that’s what. Locomotion mimicking nature has been around for a little while, but up until now has only been available to university researchers. That’s all going…