Planning responses to demographic change |
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Authors: | Bryan J. R. Taylor Elizabeth A. Taylor |
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Affiliation: | (1) University of Bath, BA2 7AY Bath, Avon, United;(2) Buckland Dinham, Somerset, U.K. |
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Abstract: | The United Kingdom faces a decline in the 18-year-old cohort from 900,000 + in the mid-1980s to 600,000 + in the mid-1990s. Will a third of the universities close? More important, will industry and commerce cope with the potential reduction in skilled manpower production? A method is described for forecasting graduate numbers and their quality by discipline, and suggestions are made about ways in which society could react so as to influence unacceptable trends. |
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