There is a great arti­cle in today’s Aus­tralian by my co-​​author Peter Hall on the cri­sis in math­e­mat­ics & sta­tis­tics edu­ca­tion (with stu­dent num­bers falling at the same time as the num­ber of jobs is rising).

The most inter­est­ing com­ment is the last paragraph:

For a nation in the grip of a seri­ous skills short­age in math­e­mat­ics and sta­tis­tics, another review is not needed. Action is needed. It should be pos­si­ble to drive uni­ver­sity behav­iour in the national inter­est by fore­shad­ow­ing that the Government’s pro­posed com­pacts will include a require­ment that math­e­mat­ics and sta­tis­tics cur­ricu­lums be offered in sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy, edu­ca­tion, busi­ness and eco­nom­ics courses across the coun­try, taught by pro­fes­sion­als in math­e­mat­ics and statistics.

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