If you've ever heard a student ask, 'how does this maths equation relate to real life?', 12 fellow students have answers. Hailing from Canberra’s Radford College and Baulkham Hills High School in Sydney’s north-east, based on this ability, they were selected from ...

STEM has been an educational buzzword for so long, some have begun to question its validity. Nonetheless, the STEM crisis persists. Last week, an Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) report, Challenges in STEM Learning in Australian Schools, posed three possible solutions ...

NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes used a speech on Wednesday night to spurn what he perceives as schools' overemphasis on STEM. Stokes, who has an Arts/Law background and has claimed he's "no expert in matters of education", contended "STEM seeks to dehumanise education – ...

Australian Mathematical Science Institute's newest ambassador has issued a call for girl power in STEM subjects and careers. Choose Maths Careers Ambassador and Swinburne Associate Professor, Alan Duffy, was seated on a panel at the Choose Maths International Women's Day ...

What do our three most recent male Prime Ministers - Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd - have in common? Certainly not much of their politics.  They all did, however, at one point or another, attend single-sex schools: Sydney ...

The federal government has committed to backing a new initiative by school principals aimed at improving STEM teaching and leadership. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said the STEM Leaders project would improve participation and engagement, and lead to better ...

What do you want to be when you’re older? It’s a question nearly every teenager is asked, yet it’s an increasingly redundant line of enquiry. Not because today’s students don’t have aspirations – far from it – but because many ...

Bringing science and engineering experts into schools could be key to engaging students in STEM subjects, experts say. Macquarie University STEM education lecturer Dr Anne Forbes has developed an educational model designed to make science subjects more exciting for primary ...

Growing up, Josie*, 32, dreamed of being a marine biologist. Always a water baby, she learned to swim at 18 months of age. After that, it was hard to get her out of the water. Dolphins were her favourite animal. ...

Some of Australia’s youngest coders converged on the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) headquarters to compete for the title of top coder this week. The 24 primary school students battling for supremacy on the day hailed from 41 ...