There are currently far too few vacant academic jobs in Australia each year to employ all our PhD students. It’s time to rethink the training of doctoral students.
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Many people are left floundering when they try to get working on their PhDs. In Africa, this is often because the skills they need haven’t been developed earlier in their academic careers.
With 70 percent adjunct faculty, who work on a semester-to-semester basis, the current system is not helping students. What can replace the traditional tenure system?
A new review of research training in Australia calls for transferable skills to be central to the training of PhD students.
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Professor, School of Public Health, University of Gothenburg Sweden, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Graduate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, UNSW Sydney
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Dean of Research (Creative), University of South Australia
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Deputy Dean (Research), School of Education & the Arts, CQUniversity Australia
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Emeritus Professor, Creative Industries, CQUniversity Australia
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Chair of ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Biotechnology, The University of Queensland
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Director, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland
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Associate Dean Learning and Teaching, College of Science & Engineering, James Cook University
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PhD Student, University of Southern California
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Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Pullias center for Higher Education, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of Parasitology and Entomology, St Paul's University
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Professor of Education & Policy, Boston College
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Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University
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Emeritus Professor, Environmental Science, James Cook University
