Fostering Future Skills Framework
The Fostering Future Skills Framework addresses the development of skill sets that best equip students for the world today and into the future. It is about developing the transferable skills that become enablers for students in any environment.
View the draft Framework here
Rationale
STEM capacity across the population is critical in helping to support innovation and productivity. STEM literacy is increasingly becoming part of the core capabilities that Australian society need. A renewed national focus on STEM in school education is critical to ensuring all young Australians are equipped with the necessary STEM skills, knowledge and understandings that they will need to succeed
"The Catholic Church is in no way opposed to progress, rather she considers ‘science and technology are the wonderful product of a God-given human creativity, since they have provided us with wonderful possibilities, and we all gratefully benefit from them.’"
(Compendium, No. 457) – 2004 Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church