A heart-warming article in this newspaper on the weekend focused on a programme run by the Scientific Research Council (SRC) to strengthen teachers’ delivery of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education to their students.

Now in its fourth year, the four-day Summer Attachment Programme has grown from 17 teachers to 240, with 83 per cent coming from the rural areas.

Ms Charah Watson, SRC executive director, reminds us that rural schools are in particular need of such support, since far too many have only limited access to laboratories, equipment, and the like.