The work is to focus on STEM and tackling the problems of low take-up among girls within these subjects.
Entitled Opening Doors, the project is backed by the Government Equalities Office and is being led by the Institute of Physics (IoP), which will be working with two clusters of schools in North Somerset and Sussex.
It comes after research data, published by the IoP late last year in its Closing Doors report, presented a national picture of subject choice trends and suggested that the vast majority of schools do little to counter gender prejudices.
The IoP has already been working with university physics departments to identify and reward best practice in addressing the under-representation of women in university physics as part of its Project Juno initiative. The new project is to draw on this expertise.
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