Visitor funding for disadvantaged Southern African PDRAs to the UK

南非对熟练的STEM工人的经济需求迫切需要满足，但大多数非白人接受高等教育的比例比南非白人低四倍以上，而南非仍有超过86%的正教授是白人，这一事实加剧了这一问题。我们建议通过南部非洲弱势博士后研究人员到南部非洲大望远镜合作的英国机构的访问研究奖学金计划来解决这一问题，以解决以下联合国可持续发展目标：(4)优质教育（10）减少不平等（17）实现目标的伙伴关系。该项目具有惊人的成本效益：研究员的工资由南非直接慷慨支付，英国机构放弃了遗产/间接成本，该项目利用的资金比STFC赠款奖励的规模多十倍以上。

There is an urgent unmet economic need for skilled STEM workers in South Africa, but majority non-white participation in higher education is more than four times lower than among white South Africans, exacerbated by the fact that still more than 86% of full professors in South Africa are white. We propose to address this with a programme of visiting research fellowships from disadvantaged Southern African postdoctoral researchers to UK institutions partnering in the Southern African Large Telescope, addressing the following UN Sustainable Development Goals: (4) Quality Education (10) Reduced Inequalities (17) Partnerships for the Goals. This project is spectacularly cost-effective: with the fellows' salaries generously being paid directly by South Africa, and UK institutions waiving the estates/indirect costs, this project leverages more than a factor of ten more funding than the size of the STFC grant award.