Higher education authority says lack of PhD holders in the coming years could cause problems
The Swedish Higher Education Authority has calculated that the country’s universities will face a shortage of doctoral graduates until 2030. But from then on, the deficit will be turned into a surplus.
Given the task of analysing trends in Sweden’s higher education system, the quality assurance body, known as UKÄ, investigated whether universities’ need for research and teaching staff with doctoral degrees would be met in the period until 2035.