Why are less people taking higher edu phys?

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why are the number of people taking physics at further and higher education decreasing? it was on the news. is there any particular reason, cause i think that's sad...
 

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Alias25,

Do you have any reports to back up this statement? I am not sure that it is true (not trying to say that what you are saying is false, I truly don't know).
I don't have time to search through this stuff right now but for the US there is this information:
http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/emptrends.html

I know you are in the UK, so there may be a significant difference in the numbers between the UK and the US, but my hunch is that there will not be. Just a hunch.

Oh yeah- don't believe everything you hear on the news or read in the papers. Do a little research and come to your own conclusions- it will make things much more meaningfull and concrete when evaluating the truthfulness of things.

Cheers,
Ryan
 
I think he was referring to this: http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article328266.ece
 
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I can't really think of a reason for the decline at the moment. The part about a quarter of teachers not having a degree is pretty alarming, and that'a only going to get worse for the next few years it seems :(

Maybe it's got something to do with too much stress in earlier years now being put on stupid things like Key Skills, and a general drift away from technical subjects like Physics in favour of vocational ones (or so I've heard)?
 
The answer is real simple. Sadly, people are going into engineering or chemistry. There are more jobs for these professions. I'm a engineer and I'm realizing that I'm more of a physicist due to my insatiable curiosity. I realize that physicists don't do it for the money, but many engineers do engineering for the money.

Modey3
 
Engineer of what field, Modey?
 
but many engineers do engineering for the money.

I know when I get my job, I'll be doing it for the money ( of course I'm purposely omitting "I'm doing it for the love of it".) I'm making way too many sacrifices now > mentally, physically, emotionally, and socially. And for that, it better pay off in the long run.
 
I'm a Materials Engineer z-component.
 
thanks....I had great physics teachers I guess I was lucky. that article says that there arn't many good qualified physics teachers in many schools.