‘We do STEM as well’: Exploring Pathways in Australia’s STEM Workforce

Abstract

Abstract In recent years, much attention has been paid to the need to increase STEM participation. This attention largely arises in anticipation of economic and job growth in STEM and concern that not enough graduates are being produced to fill this increased demand. Little understood is the detail of the pathways students take within STEM and how these align with predicted needs. Additionally, analyses of such pathways tend to focus on academic pathways within STEM which only account for a relatively small proportion of all STEM jobs rather than on both academic and vocational pathways. This paper analyses participation data for STEM programs across the STEM pathways of up..