With a current push for industry to translate innovative ideas into developed products, entrepreneurial education has the power to transform. Adding it to STEM programs in schools provides students with crucial future-ready skills and an array of new career possibilities.

Stephanie McConnell believes that success is an individual story for every student. The principal of revolutionary state school Lindfield Learning Village gives her take on why schools need to change the way they measure success.

IDEAS (Innovation, Design, Engineering, Art and Science) is an integrated subject, a compulsory multi-disciplinary course in which Year 7 and 8 students employ a human-centred design process to find solutions to real-world problems.

The shift in the design of school facilities from teaching-centred classrooms to the design of integrated, purposeful learning spaces that support learning in multiple modes, creates challenges for many teachers, while others take it in their stride. Why is this paradigm shift easier for some than others?

Involving everything from streamlining work processes to providing workers with virtual assistants, this “decluttering” process would free up the time and resources needed for workers to develop the skills that robots can’t – skills that Mr McEwan splits into two categories: “social-creative” and “digital dexterity”.