Australia is undergoing digital disruption that is set to dramatically change the workforce. Yet with a continued decline in student uptake of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) school subjects Australia will need to look overseas to bring in skilled migrants as we prepare the next generation for the digital future.
Australia is one of the most connected nations in the world with nearly three-quarters of the population using mobile phones to access the internet according to the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science.
Accounting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) predicts that the growing ubiquity of technology will dramatically change the workforce with 44 per cent of current jobs likely to vanish in two decades.
PwCs A Smart Move report forecasts that 75 per cent of the fastest growing occupations will require skills in the STEM fields.
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