Aoyama Gakuin University will start a new system in 2020 to hire about 40 graduate students from graduate schools and professional graduate schools as "graduate student assistants".The aim is to foster researchers by providing a place to gain practical experience as an assistant and by providing financial support to create an environment where they can concentrate on their research.
According to Aoyama Gakuin University, assistant graduate students give priority to their own research while taking on advanced assistant duties such as lectures by undergraduate students and management of international conferences.In addition to a monthly salary of 16 yen, undergraduate lecture assistants will be covered by social insurance premiums, overtime allowances, and commuting allowances for transportation expenses after using the student discount.We also allow you to serve as a part-time lecturer at another university.
A young researcher training scholarship that exempts tuition fees in the form of a benefit-type scholarship has started in 2019, but the new system will support graduate students who are not covered by this system, and will support research careers. The purpose is to back up the build.Since it can be recorded as an educational history in the resume, it will be possible to support when getting a job.The university also has the advantage of improving the student / faculty ratio (ST ratio), which is an educational index.
The introduction of a system for hiring students can be seen in some universities in the sciences, but since many students at Aoyama Gakuin University wish to pursue research in the humanities such as history and English and American literature, we mainly focus on training researchers in the humanities. Introduce a new system throughout the university.
reference:[Aoyama Gakuin University] Hire graduate students as assistants and train researchers
