Science at the Crossroads? The Decline of Science in Australian Higher Education |
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Authors: | Ian R Dobson |
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Institution: | (1) Centre for Population & Urban Research, Monash University, Victoria, 3800, Australia |
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Abstract: | The Australian Government has stressed the important role universities play in producing knowledge workers to service the
needs of the technology-driven new economy. The massification of Australian higher education from 1989 rapidly increased the stock of university-educated people in
all disciplines. Although university science enrolments also grew, analysis reveals both that the growth rate has been considerably
less than the sector average, and that there has been a serious decline in the number of students being trained in the enabling
sciences: chemistry, mathematics and physics. Recent Government policies are unlikely to reverse this critical decline. |
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