Re:The future of the postdoc
by analog31 on Sunday November 08, 2015 @05:45PM
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You make a good point. I'm guessing that a lot depends on the nature of the standards, how, and when they are applied.
I made the cut, but to reduce the number of PhDs by (say) a factor of three, I might have been cut at some point. That could have been at the entrance to grad school, or somewhere else down the line, up to being told not to bother submitting my dissertation.
One idea is for funding agencies to set a minimum salary for post-docs, say $100k/y. Doing so would automatically change the number of post-docs and the standards for hiring them, while letting those of us with no academic career aspirations do our own thing.
I suppose that supports your point. ;-)
In AI and robotics right now, it's very hard indeed to get a good postdoc since their opportunities are so good.
Maybe that's the solution. It means that the people you're training actually have realistic career options, and you don't have to create an artificial job market for them.
I made the cut, but to reduce the number of PhDs by (say) a factor of three, I might have been cut at some point. That could have been at the entrance to grad school, or somewhere else down the line, up to being told not to bother submitting my dissertation.
One idea is for funding agencies to set a minimum salary for post-docs, say $100k/y. Doing so would automatically change the number of post-docs and the standards for hiring them, while letting those of us with no academic career aspirations do our own thing.
I suppose that supports your point. ;-)
In AI and robotics right now, it's very hard indeed to get a good postdoc since their opportunities are so good.
Maybe that's the solution. It means that the people you're training actually have realistic career options, and you don't have to create an artificial job market for them.