It’s also because higher degrees have become so devalued…
Masters is the new Bachelors. PhD is the new Masters. And yet the number of actually useful things one can do a PhD in has remained largely the same. Hence the utter devaluation of the qualification…
I went to a PhD information session where I was essentially told that if you wanted funding, and to “do well”, you would pick from this list of topics your (woke) faculty had pre-ordained, and take whatever supervisor they recommended you…
Higher level academia was never meant to work like that. That’s a recipe for disaster…
But, gotta keep churning out those grads, I guess!
It was… Disappointing, to say the least.
I hate to think how bad it must be in the Humanities, now…
Man, its like pension fund investing. They're all forced to choose from twenty or so stocks because pensioners are so financially retarded that any delta between one plan or another means that the one with the lower percentage return for a single year gets lambasted.
It’s also because higher degrees have become so devalued…
Masters is the new Bachelors. PhD is the new Masters. And yet the number of actually useful things one can do a PhD in has remained largely the same. Hence the utter devaluation of the qualification…
I went to a PhD information session where I was essentially told that if you wanted funding, and to “do well”, you would pick from this list of topics your (woke) faculty had pre-ordained, and take whatever supervisor they recommended you…
Higher level academia was never meant to work like that. That’s a recipe for disaster…
But, gotta keep churning out those grads, I guess!
It was… Disappointing, to say the least.
I hate to think how bad it must be in the Humanities, now…
Man, its like pension fund investing. They're all forced to choose from twenty or so stocks because pensioners are so financially retarded that any delta between one plan or another means that the one with the lower percentage return for a single year gets lambasted.