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Nature 415, 259 (17 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415259b

PhD students also need to make their voices heard

T. L. Raoul Tan1

  1. Former president, Eurodoc, and Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Holland

Nature pays a lot of attention to the plight of postdocs everywhere (see for example Nature 407, 119; 2000, Nature 408, 637; 2000 and Nature 410, 137; 2001) and North American PhD students (see Nature 409, 442; 2001) but only occasionally to European PhD students (see Nature 410, 299; 2001). European science needs a sense of European identity before it can speak with one voice.