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The Jobs and Skills Summit (the Summit) will bring together Australians, including unions, employers, civil society, and government, to discuss our shared economic challenges and propose both immediate and long-term solutions. The goal of the Summit is to find common ground on how Australia can build a bigger, better trained and more productive workforce; boost real wages and living standards; and create more opportunities for more Australians.

The Summit will cover five broad themes: (1) Maintaining full employment and growing productivity; (2) Boosting job security and wages; (3) Lifting participation and reducing barriers to employment; (4) Delivering a high-quality labour force through skills, training and migration; and (5) Maximising opportunities in the industries of the future. Throughout the Summit there will be a strong overarching focus on women's experiences of the labour market and ensuring women have equal opportunities and equal pay.

This Issues Paper outlines the labour market challenges associated with these five themes. It is intended to provide Summit participants and the broader community with a common understanding of these issues so that we can begin working towards solutions to our shared economic challenges and ensure the labour market delivers good outcomes for all. The Summit is the first stage in the process. Ideas raised at the Summit may also be explored further through the White Paper on Employment (the White Paper), which will map a comprehensive blueprint for Australia's future labour market.

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This literature review examines strategies and sets out recommendations for recruiting, engaging and retaining experienced and qualified professionals working in STEM-related industries to teach in classrooms in New South Wales [NSW] public schools. The review, prepared for the NSW Department of Education, forms part of a research project undertaken by University of NSW's Centre for Social Impact, to lay the foundations for addressing teacher shortages in science and mathematics subjects and increasing STEM knowledge and skills among students in NSW public schools. The purpose of the report is to develop a set of recommendations derived from evidence informed literature, for recruiting, engaging and retaining high-quality experienced and qualified STEM specialists in classrooms. These preliminary recommendations will be tested in the data collection phase of the project to formulate a set of final recommendations.

The review proceeds from a systematic strategy of gathering evidence from academic and grey literature (such as government reports). Informed by the research questions, the purpose was to understand commonly identified and workable strategies to attract and retain STEM career changers in teaching, including any policies required to create a pipeline of professionals from industry to teaching. Publications that reported on ways to incentivise STEM professionals to join and stay in the teaching profession were included in the review. Literature on ways to sustainably retain such teachers in classroom teaching or in other suitable roles in schools was also explored, though there were limited studies identified in this area.

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