Annex
Table 1
A-LEVEL ENTRANTS IN STEM SUBJECTS SINCE ROBERTS
REVIEW
|
| Change 2001-05
| Entrants 2005 |
|
| Mathematics | -15%
| 46,034 |
| Further Mathematics | +3%
| 5,192 |
| Biology | +2%
| 45,662 |
| Chemistry | -2.1%
| 33,164 |
| Physics | -14%
| 24,094 |
| Design & Technology | +17%
| 16,077 |
| Computer Science | -47%
| 5,810 |
| All STEM | -7.5%
| 176,033 |
| All Subjects | +1.4%
| 691,371 |
|
Source: Building A Globally Competitive Britain: A
Review of The STEM Skills Supply Chain; CIHE forthcoming.
Chart 1: Average number of employees (%) educated
to degree level in science and engineering
Source: DTI Occasional Paper No. 6, Innovation
in the UK: Indicators and Insights, July 2006.
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