national and international interest in encouraging stem subject uptake and career pathways has increased over the last decade, driven by concerns about the shortfalls in filling technical and professional roles across a range of engineering, science and technology related sectors. these concerns are further amplified when we consider the skills likely to be needed by future generations in an increasingly technological society to address the challenges of environmental sustainability. whilst urgent, the response required is complex, necessitating an understanding of international education systems, the separate stem subjects, including their shared elements and processes as well as their distinctive features, policy directives, new pedagogical approaches such as project-based learning, computational thinking and the variety of stem-related contexts. the ma in stem education welcomes students seeking the knowledge and skills to drive educational change in response to our increasingly technological and science-rich world. the ma in stem will provide a national, international and practically-oriented understanding of the ways in which core debates across formal and informal stem education can shape responses to pressing social and environmental questions.