career opportunities for researchers are limited. At universities, the focus is too much on research and publications. The give of education is too little appreciated. Universities are, therefore, more than now, the performance in the field of education to include in the assessment of researchers. That is one of the actions that minister Bussemaker (Science) announces in her letter about scientific talent.
Waste of scientific talent
Bussemaker argues that within the university young researchers to few opportunities. Also, it notes that the intertwining of education and research in universities is under pressure. The culture is focused on research and publications. Thus, there is a difference between researchers who are successful with publish and progress in their career, while teachers who have the necessary knowledge transfer to younger generations are often on temporary and flexible contracts sit. ‘It should be possible to be in the education career, and with the onderwijshoogleraar’, says minister Bussemaker.
With 17% there are too few female professors. Also, there are too few researchers with a migration background. Phd students are often insufficiently prepared for a career outside the university. To this waste of scientific talent at the go wants Bussemaker, a greater diversity in career paths, improving career opportunities for researchers, more women in high positions at universities and colleges, and more diversity in ethnicity. Because, ‘we can’t afford that talent is being wasted,” says Bussemaker. ‘Scientific talents to ensure the renewal and the breakthroughs that science further help.’
5 million for 100 additional female professors
Minsiter Bussemaker proposes an extra one-time amount of € 5 million is available, which universities in 2017 100 additional female professors. On February 10, 2017 is 100 years ago that Johanna Westerdijk at the University of Utrecht her oration pronounced. The plant pathology, former director of the Centraalbureau for fungus cultures of the ACADEMY, became the first female professor in our country. 2017 is therefore named the Johanna Westerdijkjaar. Bussemaker wants with the additional investment in the Johanna Westerdijkjaar universities to encourage to do more to increase the number of female professors, in addition to the extra 200 from the targets of the association of universities for 2020.
4 million for polytechnic education and research
Bussemaker invests in addition, in 2017, € 4 million in the introduction of a postdoc-as-teachers program in higher education. This gives a boost to research-related education in college. In this program performs a researcher for 2 years for half of the teaching duties. The program is open to phd college teachers, and for gepromoveerden that the transition to hbo want to make. From 2018 is € 2 million per year is available.
Incentive for research careers
Bussemaker Minister welcomes the fact that universities in the collective agreements have made to the number of temporary workers with contracts of 4 years or less to reduce. Also, they have the ability of societal doctorates, which is a doctoral candidate and a part of his or her phd project at a government agency does. They call in addition, universities and university colleges to work on attracting people with a migrational background. The settings come with a joint action plan and take the progress in the annual reports. “Universities have the social responsibility for everyone to give a chance. They have pre-eminently a benchmark of quality to appreciate,’ says Bussemaker.
Comeniusbeurzen
The measures that minister Bussemaker announced in the Talentbrief in addition to the measures from the Strategic Agenda for Higher Education. An incentive for onderwijscarrières of young and promising teachers, individually or in a team, are the Comeniusbeurzen that this spring, for the first time will be presented. The budget for this amounted to € 20 million per year.
No comments:
Post a Comment