mardi 18 septembre 2012

The future of astronomy PhDs in France

Publication sur les résultats du sondage 2012 des docteurs en astronomie ayant soutenu en France.

Abstract: This contribution presents a poll undertaken at the beginning of 2012, and addressed to every doctor in astronomy who obtained his/her degree in France. Its goal is to motivate the French astronomical community to think and discuss about what should be the training of PhDs, and what should be its objective. Further discussions and reactions can be posted e.g. on this http URL A worrying results from the poll is that the majority of the participants would not encourage a young student to start a thesis in astronomy. The main reasons for this fact may be the high pressure on astronomy positions and the little interest a doctorate has for other careers in France. I suggest we either have to modify our formations or reduce the number of thesis starting each year in astronomy.

Ref: S.Boissier (2012)
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3470

2 commentaires:

  1. Nice to write in English, but, using good English would be better. 'Researcher', and not 'searcher' for instance

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  2. Thank you for your suggestion. The author received a few other ones that allowed him indeed to improve the english for the version actually published in the SF2A proceedings: http://proceedings.sf2a.eu/2012/2012sf2a.conf..0649B.pdf

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