The author misses the fact that European Ph.D. programs are 3-4 years long because the students do, by and large, work as technicians. There are no classes. There is, in most cases, no opportunity or time to pick your own question (even within a large project), which is really the thing that distinguishes a Ph.D. from an M.S. in my mind. If some countries have programs that work differently, I'm interested in knowing about them, but from what I've read, American programs are better (aside from pay).
Jane Shevtsov On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Aaron T. Dossey <bugoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very well written article: > > http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2012_09_28/caredit.a1200108 > > -- > Aaron T. Dossey, Ph.D. > Biochemistry and Molecular Biology > Founder/Owner: All Things Bugs > Capitalizing on Low-Crawling Fruit from Insect-Based Innovation > http://allthingsbugs.com/about/people/ > http://www.facebook.com/Allthingsbugs > 1-352-281-3643 -- ------------- Jane Shevtsov, Ph.D. Mathematical Biology Curriculum Writer, UCLA co-founder, www.worldbeyondborders.org “Those who say it cannot be done should not interfere with those who are doing it.” --attributed to Robert Heinlein, George Bernard Shaw and others
