B Wong, YLT Chiu, ÓM Murray, J Horsburgh - … Journal of STEM Education, 2022 - Springer

End of the road? The career intentions of under-represented STEM students in higher education.

Stem career programs

Chiu, Wong

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Excerpt

The analogy of the leaky pipeline has been used to describe STEM education, with lower student diversity from compulsory to post-compulsory education and beyond. Although extensive research has explored the views and experiences of school-aged children about STEM, fewer studies have examined the career intentions of STEM students at university, especially those from under-represented backgrounds (eg, racial/ethnic minority, women and working class students). This paper draws on a large qualitative study that interviewed …