Almost no one will educate themselves in oil – Offshore.no

Nearly 20 percent more searches nursing education, according to figures from the Universities and Colleges Admission. Meanwhile, the number of applicants to NTNU studies in petroleum dropped dramatically. Now get almost any space.

The poor state of the oil industry is reflected in the number of applicants.

According to Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim there are 31 applicants for the 39 seats in petroleum. This is down from 420 applicants for 53 seats, and last year it halved.

NTNU has been a sharp increase in applications for including communications technology and nanotechnology, where it is 30 percent more.

decline technology

Overall, there is a decline in applications for Natural Science and technology studies at 3.5 percent from last year, the figures show that NUCAS published Tuesday.

– Guests to science studies is stable, but would like to see that we had kept the level of applications for technology studies. We need a significant number of technology and science graduates for success in the restructuring and value creation society needs ahead, says Minister Torbjørn Røe Isaksen (H).

More than ever applying for higher education. 132,000 applicants representing an increase of 3.2 percent compared with last year.

More will be nurses

It is registered scant 15,000 of applicants to all 4,500 student places within nursing education. Health and social care has gained 13 percent more applicants than last year.

– The Government is keen to ensure good skills to health and care services. Many applicants bode well for the important work of raising people good health, said the Minister.

Also, kindergarten teacher education there is an increase. Altogether 3330 candidates have this as their first year, an increase of 3.6 percent.

– In recent years the number of applicants for kindergarten teachers varied. It is therefore encouraging to see that applicants for kindergarten teacher now has gone up. Quality in kindergarten is first and foremost about the competence of the people working there, says Røe Isaksen.

Worried primary

For teacher training has number of applications increased steadily in many years. From last year, the increase is 6.9 percent. For Education 5-10. Class is an increase of 2.9 percent, while Education 1-7. class has decreased by 11 percent.

– I am glad that the number of applicants for teacher training remains stable and increasing part of education, but I’m concerned about the drop in applications for Education 1-7. If applications for this education does not improve after the introduction of five-year Education next year, we will consider inserting special measures, said Røe Isaksen.