BIS Review 148/2007  I am encouraged therefore to see that youth is on our side. For I observe that the number of Mauritian students registered in Tertiary education has increased from the year 2005 to 2006 by 15%. with a gross enrolment rate of nearly 20%. To keep pace with our competitors the target for the enrolment rate is to exceed 30%.
That is the benchmark already achieved by our competitor countries. The overall increase in students in the finance sector in the year was 14%, which broadly matched the general increase of 15% in total tertiary students. But in banking the increase in registered students in the year was 32%, double the general trend. I hope they all have their sights on our jobs.