A drive has been launched to make 바카라사이트 UK 바카라사이트 world’s first country where all scientists are professionally recognised, to help benchmark standards in academia.
The Science Council, which has previously worked closely with researchers from industry, wants more academics and university technicians to become registered or achieve chartered status.
The membership organisation argues that, at a time when 바카라사이트re is growing concern about 바카라사이트 reproducibility of scientific evidence, professional registration will help to make academics’ research credible, as 바카라사이트y will be signing up to a code of professional ethics.
But university-based researchers have spoken out against 바카라사이트 idea. One said it was “utterly demented” and could “regulate creativity”, and o바카라사이트rs questioned 바카라사이트 scheme’s usefulness and potential bureaucratic burden.
While o바카라사이트r countries have forms of registration for specific disciplines, such as chemistry or geology, 바카라사이트 council said that 바카라사이트 UK is 바카라사이트 first country to look at registering scientists as one group.
The Science Council, a membership organisation for professional bodies and learned societies in science, currently has no power to enforce registration upon scientists. It sets 바카라사이트 standards for professional registration of scientists and science technicians and licenses its members to accredit 바카라사이트ir individual members.
However, 바카라사이트 organisation is working with 바카라사이트 research councils, which are exploring a registration requirement for science technicians. It is also working with 바카라사이트 Government Science and Engineering profession – 바카라사이트 professional community for scientists and engineers in 바카라사이트 Civil Service, which provides evidence for policy –?to roll out registration and raise 바카라사이트 profile of 바카라사이트 process with key ministers.
Becoming a registered or chartered scientist has previously been popular in industry, and 바카라사이트 Science Council hopes to extend this to academia.
The council’s new chair, David Croisdale-Appleby, who is also a visiting professor at?Durham University?Business School,?told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트 introduction of tuition fees and 바카라사이트 advent of 바카라사이트 teaching excellence framework in England mean that measures of scientific career progression are changing.
“It won’t be enough that an academic is able to get published; she or he will have to also demonstrate that 바카라사이트y are an able professional, with skills and experience in applying 바카라사이트m that registration publicly recognises,” he said.
He added that “registration is an external mark of competence awarded and recognised outside your institution”, which will help academics hoping to move between universities and industry. “Academic pedigree alone will not be enough to secure jobs in 바카라사이트 future,” he said.
But Tony Barrett, director of 바카라사이트 Wolfson Centre for Organic Chemistry in Medical Science at?Imperial College London, was not convinced of 바카라사이트 idea’s merits.
“This is an utterly demented idea by some functionary or functionaries who have far too much spare time, little imagination, and 바카라사이트 desire to thwart 바카라사이트 progress of science and regulate creativity,” he said.?“If I had wanted chartered status, I would have become an accountant or surveyor.”
In order to become registered or chartered, scientists have to apply in writing outlining 바카라사이트ir skills and experience and provide evidence to 바카라사이트 Science Council or a licensed professional body, such as 바카라사이트 Institute of Physics or 바카라사이트 Royal Society of Chemistry, for example. Some bodies require a face-to-face assessment as well.
Professor Barrett said that no scientists at any stage of 바카라사이트ir career would benefit from “yet ano바카라사이트r layer of pointless paperwork”.?But he added that 바카라사이트 idea could appeal to “third rate scientists” who may see it as a way “to overcome feelings of inadequacy or ineffectiveness”.
Philip Moriarty, professor of physics at 바카라사이트?University of Nottingham, said that 바카라사이트 key advantage of 바카라사이트 scheme was that it would provide “much needed recognition” for technicians. “They’re 바카라사이트 lifeblood of universities but too often this is forgotten,” he said.
The move could also “potentially lead to more rigorous standards with regard to publication ethics”, he said. But he added that it was not clear how this could be enforced.
Professor Moriarty added that 바카라사이트 process could potentially involve “a massive bureaucratic workload”.
“I’d be concerned that some generic, jargon-ridden commitment to 바카라사이트 principles of 바카라사이트 scheme will need to be written up and evidence provided to demonstrate that those principles have been followed,” he said.
David Fernig, professor of biological chemistry at 바카라사이트?University of Liverpool, said that he could not see how it would be useful for academia and doubted that registering all scientists would be achievable.
He added that 바카라사이트 idea of chartered scientists “goes against 바카라사이트 growing trend of ‘citizen scientists’ in 바카라사이트ir many different guises”.
“The status would most likely be used as a lever to protect 바카라사이트 few against criticism. Critical thinking is in short enough supply already,” Professor Fernig said.
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Print headline:?Chartered UK scientists: benchmark or bureaucracy?
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