Grants for running maths activities at high schools, colleges & Universities

Education Grant Scheme

Individuals in secondary schools, Colleges of Further Education (FE) and Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in the United Kingdom can apply for a grant to help with the costs of running or attending an educational activity relating to mathematics.

A budget of £6k has been earmarked for this scheme and will be split equally between schools/Further Education and Higher Education. Grants will be made up to a value of £600.

The Institute is aware that educational establishments may have to find alternative funding to help with the cost of running or attending an educational activity relating to mathematics. The Institute is pleased that the Education Grants will help financially support such activities, which will help increase the popularity of mathematics with learners and encourage the take up of mathematics post-16.

More details here at IOM web-site

4Growth - petition to invest 4G auction proceeds into hi-tech growth

4Growth - Reinvest the 4G auction proceeds in unlocking high-tech growth

4Growth - Reinvest the 4G auction proceeds in unlocking high-tech growth

Please SUPPORT, SIGN and SHARE!

The Government is about to receive up to £4bn from the upcoming 4G spectrum auction. We need your help in arguing that the money, which is a return on past generations’ investment in science and technology, should be reinvested in helping the UK become a growing, high-tech economy.


The ‘4Growth’ campaign is led by the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) and Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation.


A number of leading figures who have joined forces in support; physicist, Brian Cox; former Astronomer Royal and President of the Royal Society, Lord Rees; former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Science Minister, Lord Waldegrave; British doctor and science writer, Ben Goldacre; and Nobel laureate Andre Geim.

You can find out more about the campaign on: www.its4growth.org.uk

You can sign the petition at: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/40019


After signing the petition, please ask colleagues and contacts in your networks to do the same. It would also be great if you could help promote through any comms channels (websites/e-newsletters/blogs/social media).

You can find the campaign on twitter at: @its4growth / #4Growth

National Science + Engineering Competition 2012-2013

Another competition aimed at young STEM students (11-18 years old) :

Competition 2012-13

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The National Science + Engineering Competition aims to recognise and reward young people’s achievements in all areas of Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
It is open to 11-18 year olds in the UK and provides young people with the opportunity to build their skills and confidence in project based work.

Competition Entry

Thousands of young people enter the Competition every year, either as a team or an individual, via two entry routes:

• Regional: Projects showcase their work at 12 regional heats in June/July.
• Online: Projects enter a written or film application between July - October.

The National Finals

The best projects from across the UK are then invited to the National Finals, which are held in March each year at The Big Bang: The UK Young Scientists’ and Engineers’ Fair. The projects showcase their work to over 60,000 people and compete for a range of fantastic prizes worth over £50,000, including international experience awards.

How to Get Involved

This website demonstrates to teachers, parents, mentors and competitors how young people can enter the National Science + Engineering Competition. To find out more about the Competition and to enter please see the pages on the left.
Entries are open from March - 31st October, for more information and to enter please Enter!

2012 NPL School Science Film Challenge

This may be of interest to UK Teachers & STEM practitioners:

 

The 2012 NPL School Science Film Challenge is now open for registration!

Submission deadline extended by a week to 19 October 2012

The aim of the challenge is for you to make a film, less than two and a half minutes long, describing or demonstrating some science correctly in an engaging way. Prizes are awarded for various categories, for best school entry (£500) and best film made by an independent (of school) team, including a student (£300).

The deadline for completed entries is 19 October 2012. Make sure you take a note of the important dates for your filming schedule, and to read the rules before you begin in our rules and information leaflet.

Know any other budding film makers at your school, or do you simply want to recruit your film crew? Print our poster to promote our film challenge at your school to get others on board.

If you need some inspiration, watch past entries to our film challenges on our Film Challenge YouTube channel. 

More info here 

UK Science Funding Opportunities Resource

As a little experiment with Blogger I have created another new blog.
This doesn't (and is unlikely to have many posts, but it aggregates RSS feeds from a variety of UK Science Funding Bodies (Including the Research Councils plus EU). This may be useful to PIs looking for new funding sources.
If anyone knows of an RSS feed or STFC funding opportunities that I could add to the site, I would be really happy. I've had to insert an ugly iframe to their web-page...