CHEMISTRY has joined other hard sciences at the supply and demand crossroads: student numbers are falling but job prospects are soaring.
The bad news is Australia is having to import chemists; the good news is that home-grown graduates will be highly employable within a few years as new arms of industry are established.
The Royal Australian Chemical Institute, which held its 12th national convention in Sydney last week, heard that enrolments in chemistry at Australian universities had dropped by 10 per cent in the past 10 years.
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