{"id":51631,"date":"2014-01-14T10:39:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T08:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=51631"},"modified":"2014-01-14T10:44:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T08:44:28","slug":"sa-students-shun-maths-and-science-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/51631\/sa-students-shun-maths-and-science-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"SA students shun maths and science degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Irma Eloff, dean of education at the University of Pretoria, says that universities needed to\u00a0bolster\u00a0enrollments\u00a0for maths and science degrees, according to a report in the Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The matric class of 2013 celebrated a pass rate of 78.2%, up from 73.9 % in 2012 – although many questioned whether the quality of the paper and the pass rate, at 30%, were sufficient.<\/p>\n

The number of maths passes in 2013 increased to 142,666 from 121,970 in 2012, while physical science passes improved to 124,206, from 109,918 in 2012.<\/p>\n

The Times noted that, of the 142,666 matric pupils who wrote maths, only 15.6%, or 22,255 scored 60%.<\/p>\n

“In maths, science and African languages, we still need to increase numbers substantially,” Eloff\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Adcorp labour market economist\u00a0Loane Sharp told the Times that\u00a0universities were not producing enough engineers, doctors and scientists, as these degrees required a minimum\u00a0of 60% for maths.<\/p>\n

The Times said that a\u00a0bachelor of education degree\u00a0proved to be the most popular degree among students enrolling at tertiary\u00a0institutions in 2014, as confirmed by\u00a0eight universities.<\/p>\n

“They are producing huge numbers [of graduates] in arts and social sciences, which are not needed in the workplace.”<\/p>\n

More on SA education<\/h3>\n

SA needs maths and science pupils: Zuma<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Matric results: celebrating mediocrity<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

We are full: universities<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Irma Eloff, dean of education at the University of Pretoria, says that universities are desperately short of enrollments for maths and science degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":51632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3480,26,7305],"class_list":["post-51631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-adcorp","tag-headline","tag-irma-eloff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51637,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51631\/revisions\/51637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}