“We should not consider it a disaster that someone trained to a high level doesn’t remain in academia,” Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, president of the European Research Council, told a panel discussion about science’s “lost generation” last month.
In this podcast Bourguignon and two of his fellow panel members tell Julie Gould how better career tracking data from universities and other institutions would show how few achieve staff positions, challenging the perception that academia is the only worthwhile career option.
The discussion took place at the biennial Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) meeting, held in Toulouse, France. Bourguignon is joined on the podcast by Rolf Tarrach, President of the European University Association, and Renée Schroeder, head of the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories of the University of Vienna.
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