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POST‐GRADUATE TRAINING AND RESEARCH IN APPLIED SCIENCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF MINERAL EXPLORATION
Author(s) -
HALE W. E.,
GOVETT G. J. S.,
GOVETT M. H.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
natural resources forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.646
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1477-8947
pISSN - 0165-0203
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-8947.1977.tb00062.x
Subject(s) - developing country , training (meteorology) , work (physics) , investment (military) , graduate students , political science , business , economic growth , engineering ethics , economics , medical education , engineering , politics , medicine , law , mechanical engineering , meteorology , physics
If a developing country decides to devote scarce human and material resources to post‐graduate training and research in an applied science ‐ based on a realistic assessment that the potential benefits from such an investment are likely to exceed the benefits from alternative investments ‐ several approaches exist. The authors examine these alternatives as they apply to mineral exploration. They argue that if recourse is made to overseas training, programmes should be restricted by aid agencies to universities that will provide applied research subjects in the trainees' own countries. ‘Twinning’ arrangements between institutions in developing and developed countries may be useful if faculty in the developed country university are interested in and available for overseas work and if university administrations are aware of potential problems. The authors also discuss the provision of short‐term non‐academic fellowships in applied research, an approach which has not been used to extent it deserves.