YEAR OF ENGINEERING 2018

That this House notes in the Year of Engineering the published findings from a report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on how engineering is framed in secondary schools which shows that despite perceiving engineering as important, teachers, parents and pupils do not know what engineering entails; expresses concern that this subject, intrinsic to the UK's future economic success through the fourth industrial revolution, is rarely encountered in mainstream education; further notes how girls feel particularly poorly informed and do not see engineering as relevant to their own lives; calls for urgent action to be taken by the Department for Education and devolved education departments to set up a short-term working group of leading educationalists, employers and other stakeholders to review and report on innovative ways to better integrate engineering into young people's education; and calls on education departments to advocate school science, mathematics, design and technology curricula that better reflect the importance of the made world to modern society.