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share this: Mark C. Taylor in Nature News decrying the state of PhD education in the US, calling it "broken and unsustainable." Quoting:
"The necessary changes are both curricular and institutional. One reason that many doctoral programmes do not adequately serve students is that they are overly specialized, with slate fragmented and increasingly llc.view results from: third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 | llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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share this: to the world beyond academia. Expertise, of course, is essential to the advancement of learning and to society. But in far too many cases, specialization has led to areas of probing so narrow that they are of interest only to other people working in the same fields, subfields or sub-subfields. Many researchers tug to talk to fellowship in the same department, and intercommunication across departments and disciplines can be impossible. If doctoral education is to remain viable in the twenty-first century, universities must tear down the walls that cleft fields, and settle programmes that nourish cross-disciplinary observing and communication. They must design curriculum that focus on solving practical problems, such as on sphere clean water to a growing population. Unfortunately, expressive change is unlikely to come from faculty members, who all too often remain committed to old approaches."