JAPAN: Decline of Doctoral Applicants—Crisis for Innovation? [Scholarly Article - International Higher Education, 2021]

Title:

Japan: Decline of Doctoral Applicants—Crisis for Innovation?  

 

Author: 

Yukiko Shimmi  

 

Published:

International Higher Education [The Boston College Center for International Higher Education], Winter Issue No. 105 (2021)

https://www.internationalhighereducation.net/en/handbuch/gliederung/?articleID=3120#/Beitragsdetailansicht/837/3120/Japan%253A-Decline-of-Doctoral-Applicants%25E2%2580%2594Crisis-for-Innovation%253F 

 

Abstract: 

For a number of reasons, while the number of doctoral graduates has been increasing in leading countries, in Japan the number of new entrants to doctoral programs has been decreasing. In order to bring innovation to society and industry, Japan needs to enhance the attractiveness of its doctoral programs with stable and long-term support. 

Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) - More questions than answers: How can we effectively support the careers and employability of research staff and students?

Title:
More questions than answers: How can we effectively support the careers and employability of research staff and students?

Author:
Gabi Binnie

Published:
Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), 16 July 2020
https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2020/07/16/more-questions-than-answers-how-can-we-effectively-support-the-careers-and-employability-of-research-staff-and-students/

From the blog post:
There is a clear difference between PhD students’ career ambitions and their career outcomes. Bethan Cornell’s policy note PhD students and their careers suggests that research (PhD) students have a clear preference for pursuing a career in academic research, yet 70 per cent had left academia after three and a half years. There is, therefore, a need for careers and employability support to help researchers understand and access careers outside academia. Indeed, the Concordat on the Development of Researchers stated that institutions must ‘ensure that researchers have access to professional advice on career management, across a breadth of careers’. Yet only 31 per cent of postgraduate research (PhD) students surveyed in the 2019 Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) reported receiving advice on their career options.