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Numbers add up for
science strategy
Figures released by the South Australian Tertiary Admissions Centre (SATAC) show South Australian universities offered more than 8,700 students places in science, engineering, information technology and health-related courses this year.
Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Tom Kenyon, said the figures reflected the aims of the Government’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) strategy.
“Of the 18,900 university offers, 46 per cent were for health, science, information technology and engineering,” Mr Kenyon said.
“It is particularly pleasing to see that university offers have increased in areas of strategic importance to the State.
He said tertiary studies would provide students with the chance to gain qualifications in a range of areas and would help to meet high-level skill demands into the future.
“We are working with schools and universities across the State to increase interest in science and we look forward to further increases in demand in the future,” he said.
Mr Kenyon said that while increased offers in the higher education system were welcomed generally, the importance of STEM was crucial throughout all education and training.
“Under the Government’s Skills for All reforms, the training system will undergo fundamental changes which will result in more people in training, more choice about training providers, better skills, more jobs and a stronger South Australian economy,” he said.
SATAC is to make a further round of offers in February.
Edition 150, 26 January 2012
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