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澳大利亞聯邦政府近日警告，中國和印度兩國在吸引世界頂尖科研人員方面做出了很大投入，可能導致澳大利亞科研人才面臨短缺。
在這份Allen Consulting諮詢公司交給政府的名為《澳大利亞僱主的科研人員需求》報告中稱，澳大利亞吸引科研人員的難度越來越大，因為其它國家經濟發展快，大筆資金被投入科研和創新領域。
這份報告是在調查了72家受訪機構，如悉尼大學、昆士蘭科技大學和澳聯邦科學與工業研究組織等后，得出上述結論的。報告旨在幫助科技部長Kim Carr制定研究人才戰略。
報告指出，到2020年前，澳大利亞對於研究型高等教育學歷人才的需求將增加 50％。七成被訪大企業，如伍德賽、Cochlear、杜邦等表示，將在未來五年中增加研究背景員工。72個參加調查的機構中一半表示，未來十年內研究型學者的需求將超過供給，其中三成表示這種供需差將帶來不協調。
三分之二的被訪大企業表示，新招收的研究型員工，如博士和博士后們研究能力很強，勞動生產率也得到提高，但他們普遍在語言交流、經營敏銳度和生存技能方面需要提高。報告得出的最終結論是：澳大利亞的本地人才庫非常匱乏，本地研究者也不能達到歐洲、北美和東亞等國研究人員的深度和廣度素質，因此引入科研人才必將成為重中之重。
對此，科技部長Kim Carr表示，澳大利亞必須努力提高和保持研究型勞動力，以滿足經濟發展的需要。
2010-06-09 澳洲新快網
Report warns of research shortfall
Guy Healy From: The Australian June 09, 2010 12:00AM
CHINA and India are attracting greater numbers of the world's top researchers, making it increasingly difficult for Australia to counter a looming researcher shortfall, the federal government has been warned.
Allen Consulting, in a report to the government, says Australia will find it increasingly difficult to attract researchers from these countries as their economies continue to expand and funds flow into their domestic innovation systems.
The report, titled Employer Demand for Researchers in Australia, comes to this stark conclusion after receiving advice from 72 survey respondents, including the University of Sydney, Queensland University of Technology and the CSIRO.
The report, to inform Science Minister Kim Carr's research workforce strategy, is upbeat about future demand for researchers by business, industry and research institutions during the next decade.
It highlights an Australian Council for Educational Research finding that demand for employees with higher degree by research qualifications will expand by 50 per cent to 2020. Seventy per cent of respondents - including Woodside, Cochlear, Dupont Australia, Baker IDI and Geodynamics - anticipate growth in their annual demand for researchers during the next five years.
Half the report's 72 respondents say demand for researchers will be greater than supply during the next 10 years, with 30 per cent saying it will be patchy.
Despite strong projected demand from business, industry and university employers for researchers to help drive the country's innovation, there are doubts about Australia's ability to fulfil the demand.
The report concludes that "these growth rates will be insufficient to meet the needs of Australian institutions over the next decade. Australia has a shallow domestic talent pool and researchers in Australia do not have the breadth and depth of those in Europe, North America and northeast Asia."
Dupont Australia "foresaw problems maintaining its internal research capacity as half the company's research workforce retired over the next 10 years".
Cochlear, Dupont and QUT were especially concerned that reducing number of science, technology, engineering and maths students at universities was a barrier to recruitment.
Two-thirds of the respondents said newly employed PhDs and postdoctoral researchers often or very often had the necessary skills to be a productive employee.
But communication outside the research community, business acumen and life skills need improvement, the report says.
"I have to say most researchers couldn't write a plain English sentence if their life depended on it," one employer said.
Improving the attractiveness of research careers, especially by extending the length of postdoctoral fellowships, is identified as a key priority by research institutions surveyed for the report.
Heavy teaching loads, short-term funding of research positions and lengthy and expensive visas are key barriers to recruiting more researchers, the report has found.
Senator Carr told the HES the government had upgraded fellowships targeting early, mid-career and senior researchers, and was encouraged by recent growth in overseas students doing higher degrees research.
However, Senator Carr said, Australia "had to work hard to continue to build and maintain a research workforce that meets its requirements". |
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