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Tue 07 Jul 2008Why so few students do science
Madam, - A number of letters to your paper recently have bemoaned the small number of students taking science subjects at school, the poor uptake of places in third level, and the overall dip in the numbers of science graduates. Most correspondents seem genuinely to wonder why this is so. As a postdoctoral researcher, perhaps I can shed some light on the problem.
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