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2011-04-23 new articles we read this week

Education

Nature Magazine has published a series of papers that discuss “The Future of The PhD“. Another discussion of the challenges that PhD students encounter and a debate on whether a doctoral degree should be a training for job or a training for scientific thinking. The discussions from the readers under each article on the website are also interesting.

  1. Fix the PhD. Nature. 2011 Apr 21;472(7343):259-260. PubMed PMID: 21512527.
  2. Cyranoski D, Gilbert N, Ledford H, Nayar A, Yahia M. Education: The PhD factory. Nature. 2011 Apr 21;472(7343):276-279. PubMed PMID: 21512548.
  3. McCook A. Education: Rethinking PhDs. Nature. 2011 Apr 21;472(7343):280-282.PubMed PMID: 21512549.
  4. Gosling R, Tickle C, Running SW, Tandong Y, Dinnyes A, Osowole AA, Cule E. Seven ages of the PhD. Nature. 2011 Apr 21;472(7343):283-286. PubMed PMID: 21512550.
  5. Taylor M. Reform the PhD system or close it down. Nature. 2011 Apr 21;472(7343):261. PubMed PMID: 21512530.
  6. Fiske P. What is a PhD really worth?. Nature 2011 Apr 22;472(7343):381
This was written by Yuk Fai Leung. Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011, at 2:57 PM. Filed under journal watch. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.