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NSERC has lost its bearings, but who is responsible?
Canada’s “Natural Science and Engineering Research Council” has grown uncomfortable with the rapidly dwindling success rate in its postdoctoral fellowship programme, the latest having clocked in at 7.8%. So, it has decided to artificially inflate these rates by limiting the number of times young Canadian scholars … Continue reading
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Tagged AUCC, David Naylor, Gary Goodyear, NSERC, postdoctoral fellowships, Research capacity, Success rates
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