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Federal assistance for tenure track positions? Press release

In a remarkable and long overdue development, the German federal minister for education and research - Johanna Wanka - has outlined initial plans to support the large-scale adoption of tenure track arrangements for recruiting faculty members at German universities. Currently, the majority of professorships in Germany are filled with candidates who have gone through a lengthy habilitation process. The average age at first permanent appointment is above 42, with only a third of those who qualify through habilitation ever becoming permanently employed in the academia. We have expressed our strong support for the initiative of Johanna Wanka in a press release of the German Society of Assistant Professors.

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