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Is it time to overhaul the PhD?
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Is it time to overhaul the PhD?

Posted on September 28, 2015 by David Barner • Leave a comment

Recently I wrote about the dirty little secret in academia: That the majority of PhD students do not end up in faculty positions, but instead work in government, for NGOs, or elsewhere in industry. In that piece, I argued that (1) this situation isn’t entirely new, (2) interpreting it as a type of failure makes assumptions about … Continue reading →

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