Guess it's more or less a management problem. I think it's possible to rebrand a PhD program to be a more targeted education, not just "how to become an academi

Guess it's more or less a management problem. I think it's possible to rebrand a PhD program to be a more targeted education, not just "how to become an academic". Specifically, a doctoral program could teach people how to: 1. identify "known unknowns" and formulate the problem. 2. search and study existing literature and properly cite them. 3. cook up a clever way of evaluation and publish the results. etc, etc. Unfortunately, in most universities, these techniques are kinda sorta taught, but they're far from being systematic. And many of them don't have the body of knowledge and staffers for this kind of things, probably because they're incentivized for wrong goals (e.g. the number of papers, media recognition, etc.)