According to the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science, the number of Japanese studying in college and university programs abroad began rising after 1986 and peaked in 2004 at 82, 942.
Bob Cater noted that while there has been a positive increase in the number of pupils studying mathematics after the age of 16, advances in the number of people studying science, design and technology and engineering have only been modest.
She also said the plan might have the unintended consequence of reducing the number of students studying science, technology, engineering and maths - the so-called STEM subjects - because students tend to get higher grades in the arts and humanities.
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The technology revolution increased the need for people with knowledge of science, mathematics and engineering, but the number of degrees granted in these hard majors is roughly stagnant.
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But one of the ways in which America can improve is by increasing the number of graduates in science and engineering.
In the U.K., the number of Bachelor of Science degrees in alternative medicine has grown over the past decade, and six institutions actually offer a degree in homeopathy.
The Natural Science Sector is organizing a number of side events during the General Conference.
Over the past decade, the number of people studying computer science in the UK dropped by 23% at undergraduate level and by 34% at graduate level.
Indeed.com, the Google-like job listing aggregator, recently got in touch with me to report that the number of computer science job listings is more robust than ever, and the compensation is relatively good.
It appears likely now that studies of the Japanese giant salamander can expand the number of chytrid-fighting bacteria known to science, and so extend the options for developing treatments for an infection that currently cannot be controlled in the wild.
Ministry of Education and Science data shows consistent increases in the number of students at four year universities since 1983.
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At the same time, the number of students enrolled in computer science classes has surged between 30% and 50%, professors said.
Nevertheless, this is one area of science where the mass observations provided by a large number of enthusiastic amateurs, backed up by those of a few ill-paid professionals who do it more for love than money, can provide vital scientific data.
Henson also said nearly 78 percent of the educators reported a rise in the number of students planning to pursue a math- or science-related career.
Thus, in Brazil, the number of social science researchers has practically tripled in the last ten years.
This meeting saw the participation of a substantial number of scientific organizations, programmes and networks active in the field of biodiversity science and taking an interest in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
There has been a greater increase in the number of girls studying science technology and engineering subjects at A-level than for boys.
Prof Furber said the number of new computer science teachers was small and would go only part of the way to solving the problem.
How do you increase the number of Americans in science, technology, engineering and math careers when Baby Boomers currently in these jobs are starting to retire and young people are losing interest in these subjects?
There is a big problem, not so much about the number of people doing science, as the fact that it has got very skewed towards particular areas of science, such as IT and biology, and we are losing out on people doing some of the harder subjects such as physics and chemistry.
Published in March of this year, the report makes a number of recommendations for strengthening ties between modern science and traditional knowledge.
In 1989, the number of newspapers with weekly science sections was 95.
The commission said the United States will lose its technical edge upon which national security is based if dramatic steps are not taken soon to increase the number of Americans studying advanced science, math and engineering.
His list of publications was truly impressive, both in terms of the content of the articles as well as its sheer number and the prestige of the journals in which it was published: dozens of articles in all the top psychology journals in academia with a number of them in famous general science outlets such as Science.
Without a shadow of a doubt, there are also other areas of equal relevance, a number of which I would like to highlight, the areas of science, technology and innovation, an area in which both business communities, the members of academia and governments have a high-profile role to perform.
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Netherlands based Association of Students in Economic and Business Science, which helps students find internships around the world, said that the number of students heading to China has risen from no more than 50 in 2002 to 1, 000 this year.
Published in Science, that paper gave the best-yet estimate of the true number of words in English a million, far more than any dictionary has recorded (the 2002 Webster's Third New International Dictionary has 348, 000).
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But she says their number reflects the gender balance in the upper echelons of science, where fellows are chosen from.
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