October 08, 2004
Postgrads and the real world
Postgrads choose industry over academia
More than half of PhD students turn their backs on the academic life and head for jobs in industry
And where exactly is the story here? Isn't this what you would intuitively expect? Does the Guardian really think that people who do PhD's love academia? Haven't they heard of bills, mortgages, children?
Perhaps more to the point, don't they recognise that the UK's funding councils are explicit in their desire for PhDs not to stay in academia but to venture out into the real world?
It's not a wonder that so many leave academia, it's a wonder that so many stay in the first place...
