STEM. The University remains fully committed to increasing the recruitment and retention of students to STEM based subjects, reflecting the focus on STEM as a Scottish Government and SFC strategic priority, under the intensification ethos. The University sees this as a crucial component of servicing the future needs of the Scottish economy. It therefore retains its ambitious target to recruit 45% of SDUEs to STEM based subjects by 2021, though it now seeks to achieve this on an incremental basis, with a target of 35% set for 2018/19 and 40% for 2019/20 (see Appendix 2). This shift to gradual delivery of the longer term target is considered a more feasible approach, and reflects a disappointing decrease in the percentage of Scottish-domiciled students entering STEM based courses in 2016/17 although overall STEM recruitment is on a positive trajectory. Similar figures are expected for 2017/18, caused at least in-part by the depressed Oil and Gas sector which plays an important role across the local economy.
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Sources: Outcome Agreement, Outcome Agreement