Education
Education is a basic human right, and one that is vital to personal and societal development.
In the Netherlands, we have developed an educational programme, Techniektorens, designed to encourage children aged 4-12 to become interested in technology. To date, it has been distributed to more than 50 schools in the area around our plant at IJmuiden.
In South Wales, we work with local schools to educate children about industry and raise awareness of their future career options, and also support important community projects to improve children’s health and safety.
In the UK, we are helping to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers with the launch of a unique sport-themed programme to encourage young children to explore the worlds of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Engineers from the Scunthorpe steelworks in the UK have been working for a year with the Study United organisation and educationalists from North Lincolnshire Council to design the programme. Activities to date include a challenge to design, build and test models of floodlights for Scunthorpe United football club. Teachers in every primary school in the area are being offered training in delivering the interactive programme.
The first Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy is Dr Harry Bhadeshia, a world-renowned expert on the physical metallurgy of steels. The endowment of this Chair in Metallurgy at Cambridge University was inaugurated in November 2008, and is a mark of the shared commitment of both the University and the Tata Steel Group to world-leading research in the field.
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