We Must Encourage Kids Into STEM

Australia isn’t producing enough young scientists and engineers to meet our future challenges. We must do more to promote these subjects, and value our teachers

SCIENTISTS AND engineers will solve the world’s great challenges like COVID-19 and climate change. The number of kids taking up science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects in our schools is not keeping pace. The struggle continues in tertiary institutions.

Australia is trailing in educational engagement across OECD science, technology, and innovation scoreboards and this is concerning, we are in danger of being left behind other developed countries despite producing some of the best and brightest minds in the world.