Nobelist: toughest, not most talented, stay in academia

Brian Schmidt says academia is losing brightest researchers because they cannot endure ‘intolerable’ precarity throughout their thirties

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September 10, 2019
Last updated
September 16, 2019
Jack Grove
Brian Schmidt speaks at the THE World Academic Summit
Source: Andreas Eggenberger / ETH Zurich
Brian Schmidt speaks at the THE World Academic Summit
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Print headline: Toughest, not brightest, stay the course, says laureate

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#1 Submitted by SeanieFinneran on September 11, 2019 - 8:20am
Trying to find solutions is always the problem, particularly where there’s a market that keeps people in jobs if they train too many researchers.

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