<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Australia is undergoing a huge STEM 'decay curve’ that runs across many subjects, not just ours. In a nutshell, it’s complex and extends down into the junior and middle schools. There is no easy fix (and a fascinating paradox!) but there are things we could all be doing better. <div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""> <a href="https://www.itnews.com.au/news/australia-has-a-stem-decay-curve-465567" class="">https://www.itnews.com.au/news/australia-has-a-stem-decay-curve-465567</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Matt and I are happy to help unpack some of the national reports that inform some of this at the DLTV DigiCON conference this year if anybody is interested. Love to hear your thoughts.</div><div></div><div><div class=""></div></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards Roland</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 26 Feb 2019, at 12:10 pm, Mark <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" class="">mark@vceit.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi all.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was browsing VCAA's data on enrolments in Computing for 2016 and 2017 - as one does in retirement.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is a distillation of the results:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span id="cid:ii_jsl2oju10"><computing 2016-2017.jpg></span><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Maybe this is why Informatics - along with its hypothesis and MMOS - got the boot in the 2020 draft design.<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Maybe...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class="">Mark Kelly<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" style="" target="_blank" class="">mark@vceit.com</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://vceit.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://vceit.com</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/follow?original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fvceit.com%2Fwp%2F&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw®ion=follow_link&screen_name=vceitcom&tw_p=followbutton" target="_blank" class="">Twitter @vceitcom</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Powered by <b class="">data</b>.</div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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