The Situation in Industry and the Loss of Interest in Science Education

Autor/in	Haas, Joachim
Titel	The Situation in Industry and the Loss of Interest in Science Education
Quelle	In: European Journal: Vocational Training, (2005) 35, S.21-27 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0378-5068
Schlagwörter	Science Education; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Science Interests; Labor Market; Education Work Relationship; Vocational Education; Trend Analysis; Enrollment Trends; Engineering Education; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Trendanalyse; Ingenieurausbildung; Deutschland
Abstract	The case of Germany is taken as an example of cyclical variation in higher education enrolment in the sciences. This article looks at the causes of this "oscillation," focusing on the cycle of the 1990s and argues that the mechanism underpinning these fluctuations is the cobweb model. This model establishes a recursive loop between trends in enrolments in a discipline and trends in the labour market associated with this discipline. The analysis highlights two conditions that are required for the model to apply: the elasticity of higher education capacity and the segmentation of the labour market. (Contains 4 graphs, 1 table, and 7 footnotes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10