This indirect electoral maths suggests that Ukip's outsize influence on the national debate (relative to their parliamentary presence) could be set to continue as the major parties seek to fend off the threat in their key marginal constituencies.
For example, if you went to the University of West Virginia, you could do economics and Asian studies, with elective classes in maths, philosophy, history and French.
(The free degrees are on top of the discount already offered to all maths and science students, which Labor introduced in 2008 but then reversed in the search for budget savings).
She says the UK business sees the equivalent of six full classes gain adult certificates in English and maths every week.
We're all aware of the gaping gender gap in the Stem subjects – science, technology, engineering and maths.
The questions economists seek to answer, the tools they use to help find the answers (that's principally maths, rather than the applied topics that research suggests women are drawn to), the standard assumptions they make along the way (that people are emotionless, free and selfish), and the things they choose to measure all reflect a traditional and stereotypical male way of looking at the world.
To pass the easiest maths entrance exam, children need to be level 5 mathematicians at the start of year 6, which puts crushing pressure on them.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 12.27pm BST12 27 Cameron says the government has launched a campaign to encourage young people to study STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths).
Some aspects of revising are the same: maths students look at past papers, French students revise tenses and history students hammer in dates.
Do the maths, says Warwick Mansell, reporting on news that the UK is performing poorly in the numbers studying number after 16.
The first thing is that the process of enhancing teaching and learning in the primary years may require a change of hearts and minds about what constitutes good maths teaching and (quite often) the suspension of prior beliefs.
