PHYSICS ENROLMENTS IN AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITIES 1991-1996

摘要

This is the tenth of a series of triennial surveys of physics enrolments in Australian and New Zealand universities. This project began in 1974 with surveys by de Laeter in 1974 and Watson-Munro in 1974 for physics enrolments at Colleges of Advanced Education and Universities respectively in the period 1963 to 1973. The original aim of the surveys was to collect data for planning purposes and to study the effects of Government policy on the physics profession. In 1975 de Laeter and Watson-Munro produced the first of these combined surveys for all Australian tertiary educational institutions covering the period 1965-1975. They repeated the exercise in 1979. Following the retirement of Professor Watson-Munro in 1979, Philip Jennings and John de Laeter combined to continue the surveys at triennial intervals through the eighties. In 1993 the survey was expanded to include New Zealand universities and Graeme Putt joined the team. We now have a consistent set of data covering the period 1968 to 1996 for Australian universities and from 1991 to 1996 for New Zealand universities.