AUSTRALIAN students are ditching maths and science in their droves.
And the Gillard Government, which has cut $400 million in HECS relief, has been warned to forget about Australia becoming the "clever country".
Brainiac Barry Jones, who was science minister in the Hawke government, said only 9 per cent of Australian university students enrolled in the "enabling sciences" of physics, chemistry and mathematics.
The OECD average is 13 per cent and in South-East Asia it is 26 per cent.
"It looks bad," he said. "There are serious problems in maths and sciences in Australia generally."
The "deficiency" started in primary school with a "high proportion" of teachers themselves uneasy with maths and science, and by high school students had moved on to other interests, Mr Jones said. More
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