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Task force hopes that a report on boosting participation by under-represented groups will ‘pull the alarm cord to say we can’t continue doing things the way we have been’.
Increased job competition over the past 50 years has cut the average length of time astronomy and ecology graduates spend in academic posts from 35 to 5 years.