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In my area of academia, we train about 4 mediocre PhDs for every good PhD that can do excellent, independent research. If we had more good researchers, we could
by queuebert 4y ago
In my area of academia, we train about 4 mediocre PhDs for every good PhD that can do excellent, independent research. If we had more good researchers, we could create more positions for them. But right now most of our graduates don't want to do research or suck at it and go into industry. Not to mention the pay differential.
I also sit on a graduate admissions committee, and it's hard to find good students.
We have work enough for easily 10x as many STEM students in the US.
- sampo 4y agoYou make 5 people to go through long and demanding training, knowing that 4 out of 5 will have to change careers afterward, as the training wasn't a good fit for them. Just so that you can weed out that 1 out of 5 to hire. Doesn't this sound a bit exploitative to you? > it's hard to find good students Maybe because you provide such a bad deal for the majority of your students?
- queuebert 4y agoWe don't make anybody do anything.