Under a new Federal Government plan to be announced today every high school would have to employ science and maths teachers who have studied those subjects at a university level.
The government had found around one in five year 7 to 10 general science teachers in 2013 had not completed even a year of university study in that area.
Education Minister Simon Birmingham said he hoped the move would encourage more high schoolers to take maths and sciences classes, and lead to further studies in these areas.