However creativity has not been integrated into curricula of STEM subjects in many European countries including Germany.
Harry says it is especially important to get more girls interested in STEM subjects because many of them are discouraged from pursuing engineering, science, or math.
This school year, California districts will need to fill more than 21,000 teaching positions, many in hard-to-staff STEM subjects.
Stem subjects can span many sectors, so it's important to investigate all avenues.
Yet for all the attention STEM subjects have recently received, we still have many miles to go before we actually deliver on all that STEM rhetoric.
Turner prizewinner Jeremy Deller and visual artist David Shrigley have criticised arts cuts, and many education experts worry the government is overly focusing on Stem subjects – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – and asking creative students to pick up the bill.
Even many graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — the so-called STEM subjects, which receive so much official encouragement — are having a tough time getting the jobs they'd like.
Yet these students often sustain courses, and whole subjects (crucially Stem subjects), that would otherwise wither.
The support from many societies such as the L'Oreal Women in Science organisation or the WISE campaign helps to promote female involvement in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) subjects.
The report highlighted concerns that science education is failing to inspire pupils to study STEM subjects.
