Question 19255 — research and innovation

Summary

Mr. Christophe Arend draws the attention of the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation to the uncertain and precarious future of doctors. After having devoted many years to developing research in France, doctoral students find themselves in an extremely precarious situation after their thesis. First of all, at the end of it, doctors cannot stay in a research laboratory. That questions the investment of the French State in scientific research. The money spent (via scholarships for example) for the thesis and research of doctoral students is ultimately not valued afterwards. This situation generates both precariousness with food, health (state of stress) and social integration problems for doctors, despite a significant investment on their part during many years. Secondly, no longer having the status of doctoral student, these researchers can no longer remain “lecturers” in a university, unless they have a main employment contract in a faculty even though they have all the skills and experience necessary for this. Finally, the doctorate is much less valued in France than in other European countries. In France, the rule for recruiting elites mainly go through competitive examinations, which has the effect of discrediting the doctorate. And the current state of higher education in France leaves few prospects in this regard. Indeed, the scarcity of positions in higher education has been reaching a critical stage in recent years. He would like to know by what means she intends to revalorize the doctorate in hard or human sciences and fight against precariousness of researchers in France.

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