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Australia’s Chief Scientist has unveiled an ambitious agenda for change to increase the focus on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills to help secure the country’s future prosperity.

The Australian’s John Ross published Lack of maths prerequisites ‘leads students to drop out,’ on July 28. He spoke with Professor Geoff Prince, ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï Director, about his views: MAKING [...]

Op-ed piece by the ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï Director Professor Geoff Prince appearing in The Australian Financial Review, Thursday 26 June 2014 This article can be viewed at The Australian Financial Review website [...]

Geoff Prince interviewed, ABC News Breakfast with Virginia Trioli and Michael Rowland, 17 June 2014 The next generation is being put off mathematics due to a critical shortage of qualified, [...]

Linda Galligan, The Guardian, 13 June 2014 When was the last time you had to convert currency? Easier to Google it, right? But if you seek help all the time, you’ll never know how to solve [...]

Stephen Matchett, Campus Morning Mail, 12 June 2014 There is nothing new in this morning’s bad news from the ½ñÈÕ³Ô¹Ï that maths is taught to 40 per cent of [...]

Geoff Prince interviewed, ABC Radio National Breakfast, 12 June 2014

Tim Dodd, Australian Financial Review, 12 June 2014 Australia’s maths teacher shortage is set to worsen because of the large number of retirements expected in the next few years from the ageing [...]

Joanna Mather, Australian Financial Review, 10 June 2014 Forty per cent of year seven to year 10 students are taught maths by teachers who are not qualified mathematics teachers, according to new [...]

Jan Thomas was interviewed for this article by Rick Morton, The Australian 5 April 2014.