I had to write a policy brief for an interview and this was the topic I chose. I saw this video after-the-fact but it explains the problem very well I think...
http://youtu.be/L5rVH1KGBCY
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Chemistry Society Looks to Shake Up Training
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_01_25/caredit.a1300006
• Graduate school training is too narrow to prepare trainees for the wide array of careers that graduates pursue.
• Too many trainees are supported by research grants instead of training grants, with the result that graduate students and postdocs are too often valued mainly as a labor source rather than for their future scientific potential.
• Postdocs aren't paid well enough or given benefits proportionate to their value and training.
• Graduate school training is too narrow to prepare trainees for the wide array of careers that graduates pursue.
• Too many trainees are supported by research grants instead of training grants, with the result that graduate students and postdocs are too often valued mainly as a labor source rather than for their future scientific potential.
• Postdocs aren't paid well enough or given benefits proportionate to their value and training.
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