Komentar #19 u sada¹njem gostovanju spominje dokument "Unlocking our future: Toward a New National Science Policy" koji je sastavio Odbor za znanost amerièkog Kongresa. Google search izbaci html i pdf verziju. Premda ima stotinjak stranica, veæ povr¹ni pregled mo¾e dati korisne informacije.

Npr. jedna vezana uz prirodu financiranja PhD-a i moguæe konflikte interesa (str. 68 u pdf verziji).

Typically, a Ph.D. student’s research is funded by federal grant money controlled by the student’s thesis advisor, making the student directly dependent upon his or her advisor for support. In contrast, many post-doctoral fellows seek and obtain their own funding for their research projects (through a competitive grant process based on peer review). Extending to greater numbers of deserving graduate students § this increased control over their own financial resources for their research projects should be considered, as allocating the financial resources exclusively to the faculty places the focus on the needs of the advisor, not the student.The potential thus exists for the student’s graduate experience to be dominated by the faculty member’s need to generate publishable research results—and not the student’s own scientific and professional development.