What Students Want
Report: "What Students Want" - This report presents findings from a survey of students in minerals related programs.
This report presents the findings from a survey of students enrolled in mining-related subjects in four Australian tertiary institutions belonging to the Minerals Tertiary Education Council (MTEC).
The survey data was originally collected as part of a larger study on the attraction and retention of females into the Australian minerals industry, commissioned by the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) and the Federal government’s Office for Women (OfW).
Although the focus of the original study was on female attitudes and expectations, the survey was designed to gather information from both male and female students so that other research relating to attraction and retention issues could also be conducted.
The objectives of this report was to:
- identify the career expectations of students currently enrolled in mining engineering and minerals processing degrees
- understand their personal motivations
- identify their attitudes towards the minerals industry
- determine which industry recruitment initiatives are most attractive to students
- identify factors that will encourage them to stay in the industry.
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