Entry-level academic jobs grew ten times slower than postdoc numbers from 2007 to 2019
South Africa’s growing cohort of postdoctoral students face dismal academic employment opportunities, a study has revealed.
Scouring national data, two Stellenbosch-based researchers found that the growth in postdocs outstripped the growth in entry-level academic positions in the country by a factor of ten to one between 2007 and 2019.
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