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Quarterly Summary: A Busy Autumn + Goodbye and Good Luck to Beth!
Happy 2012 everyone. The end of 2011 was very busy, but it was worth it to gather some momentum behind the ideas and conversations from the site in the form of our session at the Canadian Science Policy Conference as … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Canada, degrees, education, Government, Graduate Student, life choices, money, non-academic jobs, PhD, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, Summary, Training, University
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A deeper look into the “80% of PhDs who do not become professors”
In a recent comment left on the site by SubC, a request was made to “look deeper” into the 20% number of PhDs becoming professors. Specifically, the question was raised as to “how many that wanted an academic career in … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Policy
Tagged becoming a tenure track professor, Canada, CAPS, degrees, education, Employment, funding, Government, Graduate Student, life choices, non-academic jobs, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, science and society, Training, University
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University Affairs commentary on our CSPC panel
On November 30, University Affairs posted two articles that summarise and discuss the major issues that came up in our session at the 3rd Annual Canadian Science Policy Conference: Is Canada producing too many PhDs? Yes, no and maybe The … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Policy
Tagged 2011 CSPC, Canada, CAPS, CIHR, CSPC, degrees, education, Graduate Student, Leo Charbonneau, life choices, Mehrdad Hariri, money, non-academic jobs, NSERC, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, science and society, too many PhDs, Training, transferrable skills, University, University Affairs
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More on Aboriginal Education in Canada
In my last blog posting, I discussed “The State of Aboriginal Learning in Canada” report and promised to talk more about potential solutions to the barriers to education faced by Aboriginal people in Canada. To that end, I have just … Continue reading
Good news from the Border – Keeping international PhDs in Canada
QUICK REMINDER: For those that missed it, I’ll be chairing a session on the Education and Training of Scientists at this year’s Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa next week. I posted on the topic a few weeks back and would … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training
Tagged Canada, degrees, education, Employment, Government, Graduate Student, Immigration, Jason Kenney, life choices, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, science and society, Training, University
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A Quick Review of the 2009 “The State of Aboriginal Learning in Canada” report
I’ve been doing some work with the Aboriginal Health Program at my day job and it has reminded me of something that I’ve been meaning to blog about here: the rates of Aboriginal people in post-secondary education. Back when Dave … Continue reading
The 24/7 lab: Motivated scientists or slave-driving supervisors?
At the end of August, an article popped out from Nature News that sent many PhDs and postdocs into a tailspin. After asking 11 labs with a reputation for “working hard” and being allowed to visit just one of them, Heidi … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Policy
Tagged 24/7 Lab, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Cambridge, Canada, degrees, education, Employment, Graduate Student, Heidi Ledford, life choices, money, Nature, non-academic jobs, PhD, Policy, Science, Training, University
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Final Notch in the STIC: How should we measure knowledge development?
With the goal of assessing the state of science and technology in Canada, it seems quite reasonable that the STIC report has identified the development of new knowledge as a key metric for assessing Canada’s relative and absolute performance. The … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, STIC Report Analysis
Tagged Canada, citations, Council of Canadian Academies, degrees, education, funding, Government, Mars Discovery District, money, Networks of Centres of Excellence, Policy, publications, relative impact index, Science, Science Technology and Innovation Council, STIC, Training, University, University of Quebec
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Notch 1 in the STIC: The Production of PhDs – What Do We Do With Them?
In this first installment of our summer series on the Science, Technology and Innovation Council’s 2010 State of the Nation report, I’m going to take a look at some of the data on who’s getting an education in science and … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, STIC Report Analysis
Tagged business, Canada, CERC, CIHR, degrees, education, Education and Training, Employment, Government, Graduate Student, Jobs, life choices, money, PDF, PhD, Policy, postacademic jobs, scholarship, Science, science and society, science communication, Science Technology and Innovation Council, STIC, Training, University
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2011 Summer Blog Series: Notches in the STIC
Over the last few weeks, Beth and I have been trying to identify a good topic for a summer series that our readers might enjoy. Just in time, offering the glue to hold our scattered ideas together, the Science, Technology … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Jobs, Policy, STIC Report Analysis
Tagged Banting, business, Canada, CERC, CIHR, degrees, education, Employment, Government, Graduate Student, life choices, money, NSERC, PDF, PhD, Policy, postacademic jobs, scholarship, Science, science and society, science communication, Science Technology and Innovation Council, SSHRC, STIC, Training, University, Vanier
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