Not enough students around the world choose to study science subjects at university. What are the reasons for this? What impact does this issue have on society?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Technology is rapidly changing the lives of people around the world, creating a high demand for university graduates with a background in science. However, the number of students studying relevant subject is well below the required level. This problem seems to be caused by outdated preconceptions, which determine young people’s choices today.
One of those preconceptions is that certain subjects are better suited for men. Examples of these include mathematics, computer science, technologies and other field of knowledge, which are totally dominated by males. In recent decades, a noticeable progress has been achieved by many countries in acknowledging that men and women are equally capable of science. Despite this big steps towards equality, female employees may still feel unwelcome or, or in some instances, face evident discrimination in male dominated work environment. As a result, many women with a natural inclination to science settle on studying in humanities or social science at universities, depriving society of their main talent.
Another reason for the lack of science students spreads even wider. In the past, scientists were significantly less than professionals in such prestigious areas, such as business and law. Therefore, ambitious young people tended to choose highly paid occupations, disregarding their aptitude for science. Things have changed; today jobs in science are among those with the highest remuneration, But this trend is yet to be reflected in the university application numbers. For example, in the Uk, over half of all international students still choose to study for a degree in business. Consequently, Economies around the world are affected by an oversupply of social science graduates and a deficit of graduates with technical skills. Not surprisingly, complaints of fresh graduates who cannot find a job are frequent.
To conclude, it seems some young people still perceive studying science as a route towards a mediocre income from a job where most of one’s colleagues are men. Thus, too many opt for a degree in social sciences, creating a imbalanced society where highly-educated university graduates struggle to find a skilled job.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, however, if, may, regarding, so, still, therefore, thus, well, for example, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1870.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 337.0 315.596192385 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.54896142433 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09792853326 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.620178041543 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 575.1 506.74238477 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.9572439806 49.4020404114 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.0 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8235294118 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.76470588235 7.06120827912 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.236063626405 0.244688304435 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0698840981755 0.084324248473 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0494436838389 0.0667982634062 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135772581179 0.151304729494 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0425307169657 0.056905535591 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.91 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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