{"id":47,"date":"2006-10-07T12:35:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T10:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wuenschenswert.net\/wunschdenken\/archives\/47"},"modified":"2006-10-07T12:39:53","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T10:39:53","slug":"why-is-there-a-shortage-of-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wuenschenswert.net\/wunschdenken\/archives\/47","title":{"rendered":"Why is there a shortage of scientists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/57a392a0-5202-11db-bce6-0000779e2340.html\">FT.com \/ Home UK \/ UK &#8211; Alan Cane: Why is there a shortage of scientists?<\/a><br \/>\nThere is a shortage of science graduates. &#8230; But here\u2019s an interesting fact. &#8230; The mathematics in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Reality-Complete-Guide-Laws-Universe\/dp\/0099440687\/sr=1-2\/qid=1160217016\/ref=sr_1_2\/028-7813123-4454163?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books-intl-de\">this<\/a> book are truly fearsome, yet it has been walking off the shelves. &#8230; All of this suggest to me that there is a much greater interest in science than is generally perceived.  &#8230; Various schemes have been devised to improve the image of science, many of them &#8230; dumbing down the subject.   [ <i>Man denke nur an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informatikjahr.de\/index.php?id=5\">Dank Informatik!<\/a><\/i> ] &#8230; We need teachers at [the primary and junior school] level who have both the skills and enthusiasm to impart a love of science in young minds. <\/p>\n<p>Vielleicht brauchen wir eher eine Organisation des wissenschaftlichen Betriebs, die der Liebe zur Wissenschaft Raum zur Entfaltung gibt, statt sie durch finanzielle &#8220;Abstrafung&#8221;, unzeitgem\u00e4\u00dfe Arbeitsbedingungen und anti-intellektuelle Kl\u00fcngelei zu hemmen. Die <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unileipzig.de\/personalrat\/bat_o\/verg\/gehalt.htm\">Geh\u00e4lter<\/a> f\u00fcr wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter und Postdocs liegen deutlich unter dem freien Markt, die Vertragssituationen werden prek\u00e4rer, f\u00fcr welchen Diplom-Informatiker soll das noch attraktiv sein?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT.com \/ Home UK \/ UK &#8211; Alan Cane: Why is there a shortage of scientists? There is a shortage of science graduates. &#8230; But here\u2019s an interesting fact. &#8230; The mathematics in this book are truly fearsome, yet it has been walking off the shelves. &#8230; All of this suggest to me that there &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wuenschenswert.net\/wunschdenken\/archives\/47\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is there a shortage of scientists?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wuenschenswert.net\/wunschdenken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wuenschenswert.net\/wunschdenken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wuenschenswert.net\/wunschdenken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wuenschenswert.net\/wunschdenken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wuenschenswert.net\/wunschdenken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wuenschenswert.net\/wunschdenken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wuenschenswert.net\/wunschdenken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wuenschenswert.net\/wunschdenken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wuenschenswert.net\/wunschdenken\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}