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🗓️ 16 March 2016
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the fourth ESNA podcast on higher education and science policy. |
0:06.0 | Today we are taking another look at internationalization, this time asking how German universities attract talk scientists. |
0:15.0 | We will be talking to Professor Hans DeBitt from Boston College in the United States, |
0:20.0 | where he is director of the |
0:22.5 | Center for International Higher Education. Thank you for joining us, Professor DeWitt. |
0:27.9 | You are a renowned author on the topic of internationalization. Does Germany have a new role |
0:33.9 | in the competition for top scientists? Yeah, I think so. And of course, not only Germany, |
0:39.7 | B or see other countries moving in the same direction. France is another example of that, the UK. |
0:45.9 | The excellence program in Germany is a way how Germany tries to move up in the tops of high |
0:53.7 | education institutions at world-class universities. |
0:56.0 | And since world-class universities are for a strong way defined by not only their funding, |
1:04.0 | but also by having top scientists and top students internationally, |
1:09.0 | they have to invest in bringing international scientists and returning |
1:14.3 | German scientists who are in the United States and elsewhere and selecting the best and |
1:19.2 | brightest students to come. |
1:20.7 | Do you think that there has been a price raise in this sector in the last few years? |
1:25.2 | Yes, a little bit, but not so much in the salaries. I think it's much more in the facilities, the service that the professors get. |
1:33.3 | So, do they get enough support staff, so associate professors, assistant professors, graduate assistants, |
1:42.3 | do they get good laboratories and other facilities |
1:45.4 | to be able to compete? That seems to be much more important for faculty than the high salaries |
1:52.6 | they get. Germany seems to following the American approach of bringing in lots of their |
1:57.6 | leading scientists from abroad instead of training them themselves. |
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