[mnky9800n]

The proven pipeline you are discussing here isn’t going anywhere. PhD students still will do their phds. What this kind of funding structure will do is reduce the amount of time writing proposals. It’s not dissimilar to Norways research centres for excellence which are funded for ten years. I think this is good. Like, I have three separate proposals I’m writing concurrently. It’s annoying and takes away from my ability to interact with my colleagues and those I advise as well as my own research. Additionally, it’s basically impossible to hire engineering type roles which are way better than trying to convince a postdoc to be a software developer. Additionally I see a lot of colleagues not optimising for impact where I feel that this program will force that.