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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
What to do with all the Scientists… find out at the 2011 Canadian Science Policy Conference
In a break from normal lab routine, I’ll be dabbling in the black arts of science policy this November and running a session at the 3rd annual Canadian Science Policy Conference. The conference runs from Nov 16th-18th and features an … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, General, Policy
Tagged 2011 CSPC, Alan Bernstein, Angela Crawley, Canada, Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars, Canadian Science Policy, Canadian Science Policy Conference, CAPS, Chad Gaffield, CIHR, CSPC, David Kent, education, Gary Goodyear, Government, Graduate Student, life choices, MITACS, money, non-academic jobs, NSERC, Olga Stachova, Ottawa, PDF, Penny Park, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, science and society, science communication, Science Media Centre, SSHRC, Suzanne Fortier, Training, transferrable skills, University
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A Quick Thanksgiving Post on Bad Graphs
I’m full of Thanksgiving dinner, so today’s posting is going to be a quick one! A friend of mine recently passed along this paper to me, as she thought it might be a useful tool in teaching research methods/statistics: Graphs … Continue reading
Quarterly Summary: Guest Bloggers are Great!
This summer featured our second summer series. Last year’s “So you want to be a…” was followed up this year by “Notches in the STIC” which navigated through the key points of the Science and Technology Innovation Council’s recent report … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambridge, Canada, CAPS, Council of Canadian Academies, CSaP, CSPC, education, Employment, fellowship, Government, Graduate Student, Marianne Stanford, Nassif Ghoussoub, non-academic jobs, Open Laboratory, PDF, PhD, Piece of Mind, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Recruitment of Policy Leaders, Science, science and society, science communication, Science Technology and Innovation Council, SSHRC, Stem Cell Network, Summary, Training, University
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Adding Shades of Grey into Science Policy
I was forwarded two articles last month (thanks Mike O!) from the world of Australian science policy. In these articles, the debate centred on whether or not academics should be involved in making public policy. The article that started the … Continue reading
Science in the federal government
Two recent news stories: 1. Ottawa silences scientist over West Coast salmon study “Top bureaucrats in Ottawa have muzzled a leading fisheries scientist whose discovery could help explain why salmon stocks have been crashing off Canada’s West Coast, according to … Continue reading
Posted in Jobs, Policy, Science Communication
Tagged Canada, federal government, federal government jobs, Government, Jobs, Policy, science and society, science communication
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