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You have to stop graduating useless PhDs. Graduate students, and often postdocs (though more justifiably), are recruited primarily in the expectation that they
by pcrh 12y ago
You have to stop graduating useless PhDs. Graduate students, and often postdocs (though more justifiably), are recruited primarily in the expectation that they will provide work for their advisors/Profs.
If Profs could no longer benefit directly from the labor of grad students, in the manner that teachers don't directly benefit from the work of students, then academia would be less inclined to churn them out. Supply would go down and both average quality and salaries would go up.
- DaveWalk 12y agoI liked to think about taking in half the number of PhDs but increasing their salary, focusing only on applicants that can realistically produce. Or even better, shortening the PhD to 3-4 years, forget the salary altogether, and turning it into more of an apprenticeship, with the postdoc being the workhorse of academia.