This survey has been followed up by a series of telephone interviews, conducted by a current Mathematics PhD student over a period of three weeks in October 1997. The final stage of this theme is a questionnaire-based survey of recent Mathematics graduates who have now taken up employment in industry. Interviewees Most of the interviewees hold a senior position in their company, with professional experience of 20 years or more. They are usually involved in the selection process for new graduates in their area of work, often through technical interviews. As mentioned above the total number of interviews was 29.
Engineers come with a better commercial awareness.
The decision about specialised subjects should be left to the final year. Out of those 5 accepted a reduction in content. The areas mentioned here were mainly Pure Mathematics and specialist topics .