This week it put computing top for unemployability, along with maths, engineering and media studies.
Heckmann went to the Technical University Darmstadt in Germany in 1994 to study business economics, electrical engineering, and information technology; "It had the right combination … of maths, engineering, and you don't get your hands dirty," he says.
Last month, the government announced 10,000 extra university places, but these were restricted to maths, engineering, science and technology subjects.
More than half of these have undergraduate science degrees (including science, maths, engineering, IT and biomedical science, commonly grouped as Stem degrees, but excluding medical undergraduate degrees).
These problems, added Roberts, are "not equally spread, being concentrated in the fields of maths, engineering, chemistry, and physics".
Under the formula agreed by ministers, only science, engineering, maths, technology and some language courses will receive funds for teaching after 2014.
We should staple a green card, giving residence, to every new graduate degree in maths, science, engineering and management.2.2
This means learning about maths and engineering, and something about the country's religion and geography.Whether things will work the way Ms Salen hopes will, itself, take a few years to find out.
This leads to the premature abandonment of important science, technology, maths and engineering (Stem) subjects, Dame Athene said.
They are enrolled in an extra-curricular class run by the nearby American University of Nigeria (AUN), which prepares them for university degrees in science, technology, maths and engineering.
Bill Shorten has announced a new $500m "smart investment fund" to co-invest in "high potential" start-up companies and promised free degrees to 100,000 science, maths and engineering studentsas well as more money to train science and maths teachers.
