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Continuing Education

…Many people say that we are all students. That is, we are all learning everyday. Without getting too abstract I think that we all must be forced to agree. Everyday is a new day with new challenges and experiences to be conquered and had, therefore it stands to reason that each day we end we have new pieces of knowledge that were acquired throughout the day. To what extent we learn each day, and how much knowledge we choose to acquire in a given day is entirely up to us. There is much in this world that I seek to know. I have often said that if I had a super power to choose it would be to know everything. If I knew everything than that would include knowing what the future held and how to cure cancer. I don’t know everything, though, but I try to learn as much as I can from day in to day out. I read the newspaper everyday to see what is going on in the world. I force myself to read the sections that are not of particular interest to me because I think that knowledge should be well rounded. I also try to read…

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Continuing Education

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With Ph.D.

…This story was originally reported by PRI’s The Takeaway. For more, listen to the audio above.
The recession is hitting Ph.D. students hard. After years of hard work with paltry pay, many students are finding out that the academic jobs of their dreams don’t exist. There simply aren’t enough tenure-track jobs out there to support all the Ph.D. students, according to Monica J. Harris, a professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. So Harris has decided to stop admitting Ph.D. students.
“I’m no longer willing to pin my students’ prospects for their futures on an ephemeral job market that shines in the distance like a mirage,” Harris wrote for Inside Higher Ed. She believes that educational institutions need to radically rethink how higher education is structured, including admitting fewer Ph.D. students. And Harris is doing her part. She told The Takeaway:
I really think that the job market today is much like a Ponzi scheme on the verge of collapse. There’s an oversupply of students, and every year…

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Why higher education is like a Ponzi scheme

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