Science enrolments up, while enrolments overall flatten.
Between 2003 and 2012, UK student enrolment in the biological and physical sciences rose by more than 30% and overall university enrolment rose by more than 6%, according to a report by the country's Higher Education Statistics Agency. But across all fields, the number of postgraduate researchers increased by only 0.1% for 2012–13, the smallest increase since 2004. In the decade since 2003, enrolment at UK institutions fell sharply for students from the Middle East (−124%), Asia (−63%), Africa (−36%) and North America (−31%), but rose for students from Australasia (22%) and South America (21%).
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Higher education: UK science numbers up. Nature 517, 233 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7533-233c
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