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Most research at universities are held afloat by incredibly cheap yet fairly capable and specialized student labor: everything from post docs to undergrads. I'm
by Frost1x 7y ago
Most research at universities are held afloat by incredibly cheap yet fairly capable and specialized student labor: everything from post docs to undergrads. I'm not sure how you get around that unless you can nationally and efficiently provide central administrative services associated university research institutions provide.
You could of course lower compensation for academics to incentivize other professionals to support research but you'll find academics fleeing to other opportunities in many cases.
- dodobirdlord 7y agoAcademic compensation is already low compared to what a most capable researchers could earn doing less interesting but more profitable work in industry. The competitiveness of the field isn't because the pay is good, people are competitive for all the same reasons that they are willing to work in the academy to begin with.
- vanniv 7y agoThe post doc that works at a university today could work at a research institution tomorrow in an otherwise-identical job. Accreditation could be performed for research institutions just as it is for university departments today -- PhD candidates could work in research institutions just as well as they do in university departments. The few classes they take are all within the department that they're researching in anyway, and are also all separate from classes that undergrads take -- so moving that education out of the university and in to the research institute seems fine too. That's not to say that instituting my plan would be easy. I did call it 'radical', after all