Why Aren't They Taking Economics? Attitudes of First Year Students - University of Wollongong: Case Study

A. Hodgkinson and N. Perera

Economics Working Papers from School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Abstract: This paper presents the results of a survey of first year economics students at the University of Wollongong undertaken in 1995. The survey aimed to gauge student attitutdes towards economics as a discipline relative to other subjects taken within the Commerce degree. It was conducted in an attempt to identify causes for declining enrolments in economics in the 1990s, a phenomenon which has been identified recently inAustralian Universities as well as in the USA in the 1980s.

Keywords: EDUCATION; AUSTRALIA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996

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