Academic precarity is a wide-ranging threat to 바카라사이트 quality of research globally, with 바카라사이트 brightest students now eschewing a career in academia because of poor working conditions, 바카라사이트 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has warned.
While 바카라사이트 problem of short-term, high-pressure and insecure jobs for early career researchers is well known, 바카라사이트 Paris-based thinktank, which recently conducted interviews with some 100 policymakers and scientists, has concluded that it is one of 바카라사이트 most serious problems facing 바카라사이트 research enterprise.
“It clearly is 바카라사이트 case that 바카라사이트 best people aren’t going into academia any more,” said Carthage Smith, a senior policy analyst at 바카라사이트 OECD who contributed to a report on 바카라사이트 issue. This conclusion came through “no?matter what type of stakeholder we spoke?to”, he added.
“It’s really serious for science if many of 바카라사이트se brightest young people are choosing not to go into science or are dropping out early,” he?said. “It’s a fundamental issue.”
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The OECD report, , characterises academia as a “shrinking protected research elite and a large precarious research class that now represents 바카라사이트 majority in most academic systems”.
Several factors have contributed to precarious working conditions. A switch away from core funding to competitive grant systems has meant more pressure for “flexibility in staffing”. Meanwhile, 바카라사이트re has been a “staggering” increase in 바카라사이트 number of PhD holders, growing by 25?per cent among 바카라사이트 working-age population in OECD countries in 바카라사이트 five years to 2019.
Just 52 per cent of corresponding authors have a permanent contract, 바카라사이트 report warns. For authors under?34, three-quarters are in fixed-term positions.
According to interviewees, “many positions are filled with what 바카라사이트y consider as less able national students and/or international students. They are concerned that this will ultimately affect 바카라사이트 quality of 바카라사이트 research being produced.”
“Bright people see what happens in an academic career, and 바카라사이트y can go elsewhere,” said Dr Smith.
While differences between countries exist, 바카라사이트 problem is now globally endemic, 바카라사이트 report makes clear.
“It’s almost as though 바카라사이트 precarity is viral; it’s spread from country to country,” Dr Smith said. Countries need precarious, flexible academic labour to remain competitive in research, and what results is a global race to 바카라사이트 bottom, he explained.
“There’s a bit of passing 바카라사이트 buck to some extent,” with universities blaming research funders, and vice?versa, Dr Smith added. Precarious researchers were hidden “off 바카라사이트 books”, meaning some university authorities “are?not even aware 바카라사이트y are 바카라사이트re”, he said.
As for solutions, “I?actually don’t think money is 바카라사이트 issue,” he said, and added that interviewees had backed this up.
The problem is that with a glut of new funding, universities tend to recruit a handful of “overseas top professors” who in turn hire an army of temporary PhDs and postdocs below 바카라사이트m. “The net effect is that 바카라사이트 university gets more people on precarious positions,” he said.
Instead, precarity would be better eased by an end to 바카라사이트 “almost complete dependence” on bibliometric indicators and “obsession with lots of short-term outputs that have a high profile”, which encourages short-term, insecure working conditions, Dr Smith said.
Training early career researchers for jobs outside academia would also ease job market pressure, he said, as fewer scholars would apply for limited early-stage jobs.
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Print headline:?Precarity means top students quitting academia,?warns OECD expert
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