キャリア構造なきポスト：日本における大学リサーチ・アドミニストレーター(URA)の国家主導型「圧縮された専門職化」

Posts Without Career Structures: State-Led Compressed Professionalization of University Research Administrators in Japan　https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/15/9/618

 

Private University Research Branding Project 私立大学研究ブランディング事業 (2016–2018) の打ち切りに関して

  1. 文部科学省幹部職員の事案等に関する調査・検証チーム会議（第8回）配布資料（HTML）　参考資料2 文部科学省幹部職員の事案等に関する調査報告（中間まとめ）　平成３０年１０月１６日文部科学省幹部職員の事案等に関する調査・検証チーム（PDF）　平成 30 年７月４日に、佐野太前科学技術・学術政策局長が受託収賄容疑で逮捕された（７月 24 日に起訴）。事案の概要は、佐野前局長が、東京医科大学元理事長等より「平成29 年度私立大学研究ブランディング事業」について、同大学が提出する「事業計画書」の記載等について助言・指導するなどの有利かつ便宜な取り計らいを受けたい旨の請託を受け、その謝礼であると知りながら、自己の次男に対し同大学の平成 30 年度入試において加点を受け、合格者の地位の付与を受けたことが受託収賄罪に当たるとされたものであった。
  2. 学校法人東京医科大学内部調査委員会『調査報告書』概要
  3. 衆議院　平成三十年七月九日提出　質問第四三一号　私立大学研究ブランディング事業に関する質問主意書
  4. 「はしご外された」職失う研究者も　私大の支援打ち切り 2019年4月9日 5時00分 有料記事 波多野陽　朝日新聞　計画の途中で、突然文部科学省が打ち切りを決めた私立大学研究ブランディング事業。助成は大学が若手研究者を雇用する資金にもなっていた。

 

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