ON GRADUATE SCIENCE PROGRAMS IN THE PHILIPPINES AND THEIR IMPACT ON NATIONAL AND ECONOMIC SECURITY

Building up the scientific manpower of a country has become even more critical with the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution and the unprecedented global conditions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. At the core of scientific manpower development are the graduate science programs in universities. In this paper, we discuss how university policies can have repercussions on the national and economic security of the Philippines.

The Work of the Joint Dissertation Board of the RFCFS and the RUDN University

The paper reports on the work of the dissertation board jointly run by two organizations – the Russian Federal Center of Forensic Science of the Russian Ministry of Justice and Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. Included is an overview of dissertations defended in the year 2016 and early 2017. Conclusions are drawn regarding the role of the dissertation board in advancing forensic science and improving the quality of scientific manpower development.

Innocent Experiments

Since World War II, the American discourse around children and science has been held in the form of a postmortem: a series of diagnoses pointing to a commitment gap that never seems to be fixed. The formation “Children don’t love science like they used to” points to an imagined past, full of the joy of experimentation and discovery. Although some now argue that we no longer actually face a scientific “manpower shortage,” the popular belief that we do is deeply ingrained, coming, as it does, from this vision of a lost time of utopian explorations. This book, a twentieth-century cultural history of the “science kid,” asks what the stakes of this belief might be. It argues that the nostalgic vision of “a time when American kids loved science” tends to represent these “science kids” as male. If we’re stuck associating the qualities of a potential young scientist—curiosity, mischievousness, a certain free way of thinking that sometimes borders on the antisocial—with masculinity, what effect might this persistent set of associations have on the attempt to recruit women into STEM fields?

TEACHER EDUCATION SCENARIO IN INDIA: CURRENT PROBLEMS & CONCERNS

The intent of the present paper is to enhance the teacher education quality in India by focusing on the emerging issues & related concerns. Various issues of teacher education namely, institutional inertia, brand inequity, quality crisis, overgrowing establishment, rare humane and professional teachers, poor integration of skills, alienated and incompatible modes of teacher education, little contribution to higher education, domain pedagogy mismatches, identity crisis, rare innovations, stake holders' non-alignment, inadequate technology infusion, little choice base, poor research scenario, vision and vision mismatches, non-scientific manpower planning, illusive laboratories, over activism of distance/open universities, invalid recognition and accreditation and no teacher education policy have been dwelt on in this paper. The paper concludes that teacher education system in India calls for revolutionary changes.

Data Mining Approaches in Manpower Evaluation

Manpower allocation determines the competence of the companies. Scientific manpower allocation calls for accurate evaluation on the abilities that the employees have for the posts. In this paper, we first present a general fuzzy clustering model for manpower evaluation for companies. To verify the approach, a new distance-based evaluation model is also presented. Simulation results demonstrated the accuracy of our research.

The Labor Market Experience of Engineers in North America

The authors have undertaken a major project which they envision ultimately as an on-going analysis of the labor market behavior of technical and scientific manpower in highly developed economies. Their paper represents a first step in this direction.