I haven't sourced that figure, it was just being bandied about at the conference last week. I suspect that "50%" includes people who go into one or two year post-docs on very temporary contracts, and a huge proportion of those drop out before they get an actual academic job.
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2013-01-24 11:36 am (UTC)