Mr. Lee Reynolds:

It is driven by availability of staff. It is driven by the attitude towards physics being seen as an elitist subject, so schools naturally stream down the number of people they push in that direction. There are a whole range of issues. The one very important thing we welcomed in this inquiry was the breadth and depth of it. I know it is a huge topic for a committee to try to take one subject through the entire education system but the inquiry got it right in taking that step, simply because what we have within physics and STEM throughout the education system is a series of problems that become self-reinforcing and self-multiplying.