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Etudes scientifiques et marché du travail : éléments de réflexion sur la crise des formations en sciences

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  • Catherine Béduwé

    (LIRHE - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les Ressources Humaines et l'Emploi - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Bernard Fourcade

    (LIRHE - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les Ressources Humaines et l'Emploi - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Jean-François Giret

    (CEREQ - Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications - ministère de l'Emploi, cohésion sociale et logement - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, IREDU - Institut de recherche sur l'éducation : Sociologie et Economie de l'Education - UB - Université de Bourgogne)

  • Stéphanie Moullet

    (CEREQ - Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications - ministère de l'Emploi, cohésion sociale et logement - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche)

Abstract

Student disaffection towards sciences, most evident in pure science undergraduates, is causing increasing concern for the future of scientific training in France. If access to employment deteriorates more for science graduates than for graduates in other disciplines, science graduates will have a distinct advantage in terms of earnings and employment status, when the economic situation becomes less favourable. Within sciences, graduates of pure sciences have a more difficult transition from education to employment than those from applied sciences. Yet graduates from both disciplines compete for the same job in the private sector with pure science graduates receiving lower wages. The "crisis of sciences" thus seems to be the result of the paradoxical nature of the studies of pure sciences: to prepare the "elite" for the prestigious teaching and research positions and to provide an education for the others.

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  • Catherine Béduwé & Bernard Fourcade & Jean-François Giret & Stéphanie Moullet, 2007. "Etudes scientifiques et marché du travail : éléments de réflexion sur la crise des formations en sciences," Post-Print halshs-00324318, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00324318
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