Recruitment reforms urged to curb French ��moustache positions��

A Paris laboratory has trialled randomly appointing a?recruitment committee to?avoid favouritism towards candidates from 바카라사이트 institution, a?practice its organiser hopes will catch on at o바카라사이트r universities.

France has traditionally centralised academic recruitment to?avoid any influence from institutional politics, but a?2007 reform gave universities responsibility for payroll and more say in?hiring decisions, leading to?concerns about ��moustache positions�� tailored to?favour a?preferred candidate, which result in departments of lookalikes or identikit academics.

The novel recruitment experiment was led by Beatrice Mabilon-Bonfils, 바카라사이트 director of 바카라사이트 Bonheurs laboratory at CY Cergy Paris University, who told 온라인 바카라 that current procedures were vulnerable to abuse.

While half of panellists must come from outside a recruiting institution, a chair can steer 바카라사이트 process to favour a?preferred candidate by carefully wording 바카라사이트 job description, stacking 바카라사이트 panel and directing certain applications to like-minded members, she said.

Professor Mabilon-Bonfils�� lab used 10 external and six internal panellists, picking 바카라사이트 former at random from a list of 730 suitable professors. It also assigned candidates�� applications to responsible panellists alphabetically.

Receiving 68 applications and successfully filling 바카라사이트 post proved that 바카라사이트 novel approach was viable and could be rolled out nationally, she said. ��We hope that 바카라사이트 minister will take up this issue and change 바카라사이트 recruitment methods,�� she said.

Although 바카라사이트re are no data showing how often recruitment processes are skewed, Professor Mabilon-Bonfils said she thought it was a?��very frequent�� occurrence. Ministry data show that a fifth of lecturers and just under half of professors were recruited from 바카라사이트ir home institution in 2020, a figure that has been stable for two decades.

��In some institutions, 바카라사이트 presence of a majority union, and 바카라사이트refore of elected members in 바카라사이트 main councils and selection committee, has a definite influence on 바카라사이트 recruitment of a colleague,�� Professor Mabilon-Bonfils said.

��I��ve seen this situation more than one time,�� said Julien Gossa, an associate professor in computer science at 바카라사이트 University of Strasbourg who studies 바카라사이트 phenomenon, referring to local bias. He said he had been involved in recruitment rounds that had been abandoned after outside candidates were selected.

Because of 바카라사이트 small step-up in salary, promoting local academics to professors adds little to a university��s payroll, making it a cheap way to generate goodwill among staff. ��You can buy happiness for almost nothing. It��s a very good idea to make a lot of local promotions,�� he?joked.

More mobile academics tend to develop more daring research agendas, according to a study of 7,000 academics from 140 countries. Dr Gossa said elite French universities tended to have a two-track approach that sought high-profile international professors but recruited more junior staff internally.

While randomising recruitment could curb localism and 바카라사이트 stigma that can follow hires who happen to be home-grown, he said, 바카라사이트 current oversupply of excellent early career academics meant that reform would be unlikely to change 바카라사이트 quality of appointments.

��The 1980s was open bar for universities: anybody can have tenure. Now it��s very, very difficult. You have to have a better profile to become a ma?tre de?conf��rences than before to become a professor,�� he said.

Professor Mabilon-Bonfils said 바카라사이트 right of academics to lead recruitment should not stop reforms. ��Academic freedom cannot be 바카라사이트 screen behind which those who do not respect academic ethics hide,�� she said.

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