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Re:The Jobless Ph.D. Generation by hueving on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @02:33AM (#7055869)
You do realize that the solution to the problem is to dramatically cut the supply of PhD students, right? While that's wonderfully self-serving for the students that do make the cutoff you would have to implement, it deprives many other people the opportunity to learn how to research and contribute knowledge to the community.

Why shouldn't someone be allowed to enroll in a PhD program if they want to conduct research in the field they are interested in?

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Re:The Jobless Ph.D. Generation by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @01:27PM (#7058724)
>You do realize that the solution to the problem is to dramatically cut the supply of PhD students, right?

At the same time as dramatically expanding the number of higher-level positions, yes. The pyramid must be made into an ordinary tower.

Too bad, so sad.

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Re:The Jobless Ph.D. Generation by hueving on Monday January 20, 2014 @04:00AM (#7088333)
So the net benefit to society is negative. Fewer students have a higher education, so people with research experience going into industry are reduced. The only people this benefits are the elite few getting into these tenure-track PhD student positions. Sounds pretty selfish to me.
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