Ramon y Cajal
JOSE VICENTE DIE, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERATION YOUNG RESEARCHERS (FJI). CORDOBA. ANGELES Lario (President of the National Association of Ramón y Cajal Researchers (ANIRC)) - Madrid - 28/03/2008
The March 18 appeared in a newspaper article about the decline in applications researchers at the Ramon y Cajal.
that program managers attribute the decline number of requests to decrease the motivation of students in science, like the latter who made the requests in the program.
Nothing is further from reality as to qualify for the same is required to be in possession of a doctoral degree and have a curriculum with more than proven merit. The average age of those who get these contracts is around 38 years (10 years after reading his doctoral thesis.)
If you look at statistics from the Ministry of Education and Science, responsible for this program, you find that the number of new doctors in 2004 was 7,500, while in 1994 was 5,000. That is, the number potential national candidates to submit application in the Ramon y Cajal has increased since the late nineties by almost 50% to remain stable in numbers of around 7,000 new doctors each year. Perhaps
managers in their analysis of vocations have not thought that the program does not provide significant initial investment and continuing for the newcomer to start their investigations, which may be crucial to investigators from his experience. You may not have considered important havoc in the number of requests caused by the refusal of several centers to receive benefit from this program, after the facilities required in the year 2007 logical commitment to stabilize the researcher to overcome relevant evaluations during his five-year contract.
With analysis like this by policy makers of human resources in R + D + i, one may understand why we are where we are.
