“Google Australia chief Maile Carnegie warns Australia is not educating enough of the innovators and entrepreneurs who “will start the next Googles and Atlassians here and help us rewire to being a high-value, best-in-class innovation economy”
Addressing the problem isn’t as easy as a minister mandating teaching children to code, as Geoff Prince, director of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, explains.
“Coding is daily bread and butter for almost all mathematically competent professionals but the devil is in the detail. Certainly there should be a discussion of algorithms at various points in the maths curriculum and coding should be a central part of that. Maths at all levels has been a victim of the calculator for too long and some real scientific computing is desperately needed in the school curriculum,” he says.
“Multidisciplinary projects require deep discipline expertise and university degrees have been and still are the best foundation for the acquisition of this expertise.”
Article published on October 15 in the Australian Newspaper, written by Stephen Matchett
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