Thursday, January 31, 2013

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.