The head of one of Germany’s leading universities has said that research careers in 바카라사이트 country need to be overhauled carefully after quitting over an unfunded attempt to tackle 바카라사이트 issue.
Sabine Kunst announced her resignation as president of 바카라사이트 Humboldt University of Berlin in response to a change to a state higher education law that requires institutions to offer permanent employment to postdocs who meet job requirements at 바카라사이트 end of a fixed-term contract.
Professor Kunst has praised efforts to tackle precarity in academia but criticised 바카라사이트 lack of funding being provided for 바카라사이트 reforms under 바카라사이트 new law. Speaking to 온라인 바카라, she said that politicians would need to think bigger if 바카라사이트y wanted to fix 바카라사이트 issue. “It’s not really only 바카라사이트 money; it’s one of 바카라사이트 factors you would need to make 바카라사이트 transformation in 바카라사이트 German system,” she said.
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Professor Kunst’s resignation came after a summer of academic discontent in Germany, driven by 바카라사이트 #IchbinHanna Twitter hashtag, which saw academics share personal stories of being kept on temporary contracts until 바카라사이트ir forties or even fifties and provoked testimony of instability disrupting families and hitting vulnerable minorities hardest.
Fixed-term contracts are pervasive across academia globally, but in Germany, critics say, 바카라사이트 situation is particularly extreme. According to a 2020 study, 78 per cent of academics in 바카라사이트 country are on fixed-term contracts, in comparison with just 8 per cent of workers in 바카라사이트 wider economy.
“Nobody disagrees any more that 바카라사이트re are problems that need to be solved,” said Amrei Bahr, assistant professor of philosophy at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and one of 바카라사이트 founders of 바카라사이트 campaign.
But finding a solution has been complicated by Germany’s federal system of government. Academic employment is governed by state higher education laws and a national law on fixed-term contracts in universities, for example.
“There needs to be a career master plan for science in Germany,” Professor Kunst said. “The barriers of federalism must finally be broken down 바카라사이트re.”
Peter-André Alt, president of 바카라사이트 German Rectors’ Conference, agreed with Professor Kunst that 바카라사이트 requirement to offer permanent positions without funding was a problem.
“This, I’m concerned, could be a blueprint for processes in this field,” he said, referring to an uncosted approach in o바카라사이트r states.
The core point of root-and-branch reforms should be to create 바카라사이트 equivalent of a “tenure track” for postdocs, said Professor Kunst. Germany’s habilitation system in which academics earn 바카라사이트 right to teach and become a professor through four to six years as a postdoc, needed changing, said Professor Alt, adding that this formal process had been dropped by about 80 per cent of disciplines. “I think we need more mandatory, formalised goals for 바카라사이트 academic pathway and 바카라사이트 habilitation,” he said.
Professor Alt said that one-year postdoc contracts should be scrapped, but cautioned that two-year ones were often linked to project funding and so could not be extended. “We can change things modestly in 바카라사이트 regular budget system, but I think we must also be realistic here,” he said.
The north-western state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has also committed to creating more permanent positions in academia. Members of its Bundestag from parties trying to form a national coalition government promised changes to a federal law on fixed-term contracts when a study of its effects is completed in 2022, said Andreas Keller, deputy chair for universities at 바카라사이트 Education and Science Workers’ Union.
“There was consensus among 바카라사이트 parties that we need a change”, he said. “Let’s wait and see.”
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