This presentation from Professor P John Williams (Professor of Education and the Director of Graduate Research in the School of Education, Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia) will explore the concepts surrounding the so called 21st Century skills and notions of STEM education, and then provide a rationale as to why these two ideas might be usefully linked together. This session is split into two sections: the first half hour will be a presentation, and the second half hour will be a discussion.