Re:Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Exp...
by grandempire on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @09:29AM
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1. Most science PhD students are international. So funding their education has questionable domestic political value.
2. Those people don’t just disappear. If there aren’t PhD programs they will do something else.
3. It’s hard to argue we are at some optimal level of PhD students and that if we cut back the system won’t work. Most academics agree we have too many.
2. Those people don’t just disappear. If there aren’t PhD programs they will do something else.
3. It’s hard to argue we are at some optimal level of PhD students and that if we cut back the system won’t work. Most academics agree we have too many.