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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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So you want to be a public servant when you grow up…
I have written before about how scientific information gets (poorly) communicated to the Government in entries about the routes of information acquisition and about getting scientists to understand how policy works. In my mind, one of the best ways of … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, Jobs, Policy, So you want to be a...
Tagged business, Canada, Canada Revenue Agencies, Career Sense, civil service, degrees, education, Employment, Environment Canada, Government, Graduate Student, Health Canada, Jobs, life choices, money, non-academic jobs, Policy, Post Secondary Recruitment, postacademic jobs, public service, Public Service Commission of Canada, Recruitment of Policy Leaders, Science, science and society, science communication, science literacy, Training, transferrable skills, University, University Affairs
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Old Debate, More Participants: What do 80% of PhD holders do for a career?
I received a pamphlet the other day entitled: Careers Support for Life Science Post Docs (thanks to Anne and Lynn for letting me post this!) This got me thinking and building on the momentum from Beth’s Why do PhDs leave … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Financial, General, Jobs
Tagged AAAS, business, Cambridge, Canada, CAPS, Core Competencies, degrees, Employment, funding, Government, Graduate Student, life choices, McGill University, money, National Post Doc Association, non-academic jobs, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, science and society, Second Post Doc, Training, transferrable skills, University, University Affairs, University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Toronto, UofT PDA
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