How many PhDs does the world need? Doctoral graduates vastly outnumber jobs in academia
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PhD programmes need to better prepare students for careers outside universities, researchers warn.
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The world needs as many highly educated people as possible. The problem becomes when you make higher education a business and attach publication as a requirement for advancement. Then you are diluting the quality of research in pursuit of a "high volume" model. In this model people don't follow passion they follow the path of least resistance and we all suffer for it.
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PhD programmes need to better prepare students for careers outside universities, researchers warn.
Archive: https://archive.is/f1YtL
You might notice that not all PhDs work in academic environments. Actually most of them work in businesses.
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Who is making you put it on your CV?
My relevant experience is in the last 10-years, unless I go further back, and then the experience is irrelevant due to age.