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Reform the PhD system or close it down

Nature volume 472, page 261 (2011) Cite this article

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There are too many doctoral programmes, producing too many PhDs for the job market. Shut some and change the rest, says Mark C. Taylor.

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Mark C. Taylor is chair of the department of religion at Columbia University in New York and the author of Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities (Knopf, 2010). e-mail:mct22@columbia.edu

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Taylor, M. Reform the PhD system or close it down. Nature 472, 261 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/472261a

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