PhD programmes need to better prepare students for careers outside universities, researchers warn.

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  • Ziggurat@jlai.luEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    The working world is very different from the laid back, very slow moving world of Academia.

    i wished that corporate was moving faster than academia, but its actually even slower and more conservative, spend 5 years getting a project to be finally put on the road-map, start working on-it for 2 years, get it descoped and postponed 2 years latter, then suddently have some manager panicking because we can’t meet our contractual commitment This is what I’ve been telling for years and why I was hired, go for a quick and dirty plan-B to have some QA telling you they can’t approve the release.

    You can do a lot of critic to academia, but it’s way faster and more efficient than private corporation

    • FishFace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      There are companies, big companies even, that kill off underperforming projects after less than a year, and most don’t take years to agree projects.