Australian PhD students are being 'set up to fail' by a funding system that maximises enrolments while overlooking 'modest' employment prospects and 'questionable' research practices, according to a new paper. An article in the journal Nature Human Behaviour argues that early career researchers (ECRs) tolerate bullying, harassment and job insecurity because there are simply too many of them. 'An oversupply of PhD graduates means tough competition for jobs, and that when ECRs are worn out they will be quickly replaced,' says the article, by researchers from Queensland University of Technology and Federation University Australia .

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