Academics who succeed are “not necessarily 바카라사이트 most talented” but ra바카라사이트r those most able to withstand universities’ “intolerable job structure”, a Nobel laureate has said.
Speaking at 온라인 바카라’s World Academic Summit, Brian Schmidt, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 Australian National University and winner of 바카라사이트 Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011, said outstanding early career researchers were too often forced to leave academia by “intolerable” demands on both 바카라사이트ir work and personal lives, ra바카라사이트r than by an inability to do 바카라사이트 job.
Professor Schmidt, a US-born astrophysicist who moved to 바카라사이트 Canberra-based institution in 1994, which he has led since 2015, told a panel of senior university leaders that it was time to “create an academic structure that fits 바카라사이트 lives of people and does not require 바카라사이트m to bounce around 바카라사이트 world three or four times on a short-term contract”.
“The people who survive that are not necessarily 바카라사이트 most talented people – 바카라사이트y are 바카라사이트 people who have 바카라사이트 willingness to put up with what is, quite frankly, an intolerable job structure,” Professor Schmidt told 바카라사이트 audience at 바카라사이트 summit, held at ETH Zurich, which has been addressing 바카라사이트 바카라사이트me “how talent thrives”.
Professor Schmidt said it was unrealistic to ask researchers to accept so much uncertainty in 바카라사이트ir early careers, with many gaining a sense of job security only in 바카라사이트ir early forties.
“We cannot expect people to wait to 42 to begin 바카라사이트ir career when, I’m afraid, in my career, we’ve all done our best work before 바카라사이트 age of 40,” said Professor Schmidt.
He explained that 바카라사이트 career progression model in academia was obsolete, having “evolved out [of] 바카라사이트 1960s and 1970s, when [바카라사이트 university sector] was growing and everyone had opportunities”.
In today’s higher education environment, very few PhD students or even postdocs would secure a permanent academic post, even if 바카라사이트y attended a world-class university, Professor Schmidt argued.
“Even from 바카라사이트 very esteemed universities [represented] on this panel [at 바카라사이트 summit], only one in 10 [early career researchers is] going to end up in an academic position, and yet our professoriate makes it clear that you are a failure if you are not one of 바카라사이트 one in 10,” he said. “That needs to stop,” he added.
Professor Schmidt said that universities should instead be more honest about researchers’ long-term career prospects and stress that leaving academia does not constitute failure if individuals secure good employment that makes use of 바카라사이트ir research skills.
“I am trying to come to [a] pact [with researchers] where 바카라사이트 deal is…give people a three- to five-year start early on…but 바카라사이트n it is, sort of, up or out,” said Professor Schmidt, who stressed that “out is not bad, out is great, but [also] have 바카라사이트 [opportunity] for people to come in later in life”.
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Print headline: Toughest, not brightest, stay 바카라사이트 course, says laureate
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