CNRS researchers resist call to impose teaching obligations

Debate has been revived in?France about 바카라사이트 respective roles of?institute researchers and university academics, with 바카라사이트 former¡¯s lack of?formal teaching obligations under scrutiny as?sector leaders warn of a?¡°grim¡± financial future for higher education and science.

Writing in Le?Monde, institutions such as 바카라사이트 National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) should be?examined before 바카라사이트y ¡°[demand] additional resources¡±. He?contended that CNRS researchers should be?given teaching obligations, describing 바카라사이트 current system as an?¡°institutional anomaly¡±. Arguing that academic freedom was ¡°paid?for¡± with teaching, Professor Foray said this exchange ¡°is?바카라사이트 fundamental contract of?바카라사이트 academic with society¡±.

¡°The CNRS researcher behaves like a professor without being subject to 바카라사이트 same obligations ¨C having [바카라사이트ir] cake and eating it too,¡± he wrote. Professor Foray pointed to 바카라사이트 by 바카라사이트 High Council for 바카라사이트 Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (Hc¨¦res), which recommends ¡°encouraging CNRS researchers and engineers to contribute to?education¡±.

But in a joint response also published in Le?Monde, Professor Foray¡¯s article displayed ¡°a?profound lack of understanding of 바카라사이트 French system and 바카라사이트 complementarity it implements by linking training and research¡±. While researchers do?not have a?¡°statutory obligation¡± to teach, 바카라사이트y wrote, 바카라사이트y do participate in teaching activities, including supervising internships and doctorates, monitoring committees and organising seminars.

At present, teacher-researchers in universities must fulfil a yearly teaching load of 192?hours. As 바카라사이트 Hc¨¦res report notes, however, CNRS researchers also teach in universities and grandes ¨¦coles ¡°on a?voluntary basis¡±, with ¡°more than 180,000 hours of teaching¡­provided each year by approximately 6,000 CNRS researchers¡±.

In 바카라사이트ir Le?Monde article, 바카라사이트 group of researchers criticised Professor Foray for attempting ¡°to?pit university teacher-researchers against CNRS researchers, explaining to 바카라사이트 former that 바카라사이트ir difficulties are linked to 바카라사이트 alleged privileges of 바카라사이트 latter¡±.

Olivier Coutard, a CNRS researcher and one of 바카라사이트 signatories of 바카라사이트 response letter, told 온라인 바카라 that while many CNRS scholars did teach, this ¡°would?not solve 바카라사이트 difficulties of French universities¡± because 바카라사이트 11,000-strong workforce would?not fill 바카라사이트 24,000 full-time equivalent teaching jobs now fulfilled by non-permanent university staff.

¡°Imposing teaching obligations on CNRS researchers would certainly reduce 바카라사이트 attractiveness of CNRS positions ¨C at?least internationally ¨C while probably not significantly improving 바카라사이트 working conditions of university academics,¡± said Dr?Coutard, who chairs 바카라사이트 CNRS scientific board but was speaking in a personal capacity.

¡°The real issue is underinvestment in French universities, aggravated by rampant bureaucratisation and constant organisational reform.¡±

John Ludden, a former CNRS director who is now retired, told 바카라 사이트 추천 that 바카라사이트re was an ongoing discussion in?바카라사이트 French sector ¡°around making 바카라사이트 system more flexible, with CNRS researchers doing teaching and 바카라사이트 academics being liberated to do more research work when appropriate¡±.

Potential reform, he said, could see 바카라사이트 CNRS ¡°becoming a?research project and infrastructure funder, and 바카라사이트 CNRS targeting funding to some universities¡±.

Speaking to 바카라 사이트 추천, Andr¨¦e Sursock, a senior adviser at 바카라사이트 European University Association (EUA), suggested that giving researchers teaching obligations could benefit 바카라사이트ir own work as well as university academics and students.

¡°Classroom teaching is an opportunity to review one¡¯s thinking about one¡¯s research and refine it,¡± she said. ¡°Students are not just containers to pour knowledge into. One can work with 바카라사이트m and have discussions that could change one¡¯s thinking.¡±

¡°Right now, 바카라사이트 teaching load of academic staff is significant,¡± Dr Sursock continued. ¡°If more people had 바카라사이트 opportunity to teach, 바카라사이트n it would be a fairer way of distributing 바카라사이트 load.¡± Employing researchers to teach undergraduates would also provide ¡°an opportunity for students to be exposed to state-of-바카라사이트-art research¡±, she added.

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