Here is another of our intermittent blogs during the #AARE2022 conference. If you want to cover a session at …
Creating opportunities for students to develop ‘healthy’ images of mathematicians and mathematics is paramount. The images of mathematics …
Trust in Science, Society, and the Australian State: A Crisis in the Making? “The return to school has …
To face many of the challenges of climate change or pandemic recovery, we need STEM workers in Australia …
Part two of this story was published in March 2022. New South Wales, Day 1, Term 1. A whole staff meeting to begin the school year. At some point after the Principal’s address, the Leader of Learning (or similar) starts their Powerpoint to go through the previous year’s HSC results subject by subject, particularly the …
The idea to put specialist science and maths teachers into Australian primary schools gained a lot of support after the latest results of international tests were announced. It even became official policy in NSW last year when then Education Minister, Adrian Piccoli, announced a plan to deliver hundreds of specialist STEM (science, technology, engineering and …
Girls and coding, I find it heartening that we are talking about making the connection and that some …
Only 11% of today’s engineers are women. Does it matter? Well, imagine for a moment what our world …