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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Caitlin Cassidy Higher education reporter

Nerf guns, marbles and Einstein: schools taking quantum leap to halt Australia’s Stem crisis

Students at the national launch of Einstein-first at ANU, a program bringing modern day physics into primary and secondary classrooms.
ANU and the University of Western Australia have launched two national teaching programs they hope will improve the Stem pipeline from schools to universities. Photograph: Jesse Groch

When Prof Susan Scott enters the lecture theatre at the start of each semester, she’s lucky to have two female students enrolled in her general relativity course. Often there are none.

Scott is a gravity researcher at the Australian National University (ANU). She says the profound lack of women studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) courses is “disturbing” and has far-reaching repercussions on the workforce.

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