Universities must prepare ECRs for life outside academia

Only one in 10 PhD graduates will work in academia. Institutions have to do more to ready the other nine for their careers, says a postdoctoral research fellow

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October 20, 2016

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#1 Submitted by kayguccione on October 21, 2016 - 4:07pm

Thanks for this article - I have responded, furthered out some of the thinking and fleshed out the calls to action here: https://thinkaheadsheffield.wordpress.com/2016/10/21/the-unbearable-silence-of-leaving-the-academy/

Universities must prepare ECRs for life outside academia

Only one in 10 PhD graduates will work in academia. Institutions have to do more to ready the other nine for their careers, says a postdoctoral research fellow

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