The answer, according to a government advisory committee, is to loosen up the research tenure system, which traditionally bestows lifetime appointments, by offering fixed-term positions to both "superpostdocs" and more established researchers.
It encompasses fixed-term positions that are generally supported by massive block grants--in the range of millions of dollars--and are not subject to the limitations of project grants.
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Astronomy is a field where doing one or two fixed term positions after your PhD is required to get a permanent job.
"When our recently named secretary of state for science and research says in a public interview that RyC programme is just a fixed-term postdoc position he is redefining [at his own convenience] the purpose of the RyC programme created by [his] Ministry," writes Ana Maria Mancho, a former RyC researcher, in an e-mail.
Discontinuity in the development of expertise is to be feared, caused by short-term filling of positions, fixed-term employment and precarious employment positions.
It is recommending that fixed-term independent researcher positions be created for senior people capable of directing a team.
One way of achieving this would be to transform the existing 4000 fixed-term contract postdoc positions into full professorships instead of annihilating them.
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