Only 13% Of Stem Foundation Apprenticeships Started By Women

Fewer than one in five students taking up a foundation apprenticeship in a Stem subject is female, new figures have shown.Despite more than half (53.7%) of all 2017 entrants to the foundation apprenticeship programme being female, for the science, technology, engineering or maths strands female representation was 13.2%.This has risen from 8.1% for the 2016 entrants to the apprenticeship programme, which gives high school pupils the chance to choose a work placement as one of their senior subject