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Honestly, unis are generally resourced enough that they could pull it off, were there the will to do it, and it certainly wouldn't be the least efficient use of
by naniwaduni 3y ago
Honestly, unis are generally resourced enough that they could pull it off, were there the will to do it, and it certainly wouldn't be the least efficient use of their resources. But as with all things related to grad student exploitation, getting funds to do that through formal structures is like wringing blood from a stone.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoEven in countries where grad students are not exploited, where all PhD students are paid a local middle-class salary, universities still don’t generally provide such language services for free. If the PhD student is working under a funded project, then why should the university pay if the grant money can? Or if the student must pay out of his own pocket, then this one-time expense is seen as something that a student can manage himself instead of the university incurring further costs. Universities are often resourced in that they will maintain a pool of knowledgeable native speakers of English or the local language who can provide language revision. It’s just that that service won’t be free.