STEM Education

Current Education

100

This subject fell by 32% in Year 12 enrolment between 1992 and 2009.

Biology

200

This form of education is inefficient and should be replaced to help promote connections to real-life issues

Rote Memorization

300

This is the main takeaway from the surveys of year 11 & 12 students with regards to STEM

Science is not seen as relevant to students' future or everyday life

Effects on Workforce

100

This is the number of engineering graduates in Australia

6,000

200

This is a possible way to increase interest in STEM degrees

Offer more scholarships in STEM

300

Australia produces ________ of its annual engineering workforce needs.

Less than half

STEM Ideals

100

This method of influencing students to stay interested instead focuses on familiarization and showing how STEM is "fundamentally interesting"

Engage students early

200

By doing this, the disconnect between industry and education in STEM will be reduced

Teach science as it's practiced

300

In STEM education, this should be emphasized over the product

Process

Teacher/Scientist Collaboration

100

This program digitally connects students and scientists through video

Skype a Scientist

200

This program promotes increased STEM integration for Year 9 & 10

iSTEM

300

This is what scientists and teachers hope to help students do by engaging students in science

Find an area of interest

Impact on Innovation

100

Lowered participation and graduates in STEM leads to this

Decreasing rates of innovation

200

If further action isn't taken, this aspect of Australia will fall as resources and innovation do

Economy

300

This is the attitude of Australia towards developing innovations due to a reliance on a resource-based economy

Apathetic