http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7298/full/465525b.html

This article emphasizes the paradox between the facts that on one hand, academics, students and universities commonly agree that the scientific level of education is rather poor in their own country. On the other hand, academic institutions would rather grant an open tenured position to a researcher rather than a teacher.

Two solutions are recommended in the end of the article to cope with this ambivalence:

• an improvement in supporting and rewarding for university-level teaching.

• standardized system of teaching evaluation

We further suggest to have a look at the comments that resulted from the article and the above “solutions”.