Jacob Christensen

YouTube is good for something: Here is the Great Sartori speaking

Two threads worth following for (prospective) PhDs. The action – which mainly draws on US experiences – is in the comments in both cases:

1. Scatterplot on how to get a job outside of academia (aka “the Real World”)
2. Brian Leiter on how to get a job at a teaching department (as opposed to a research department)

Just one comment: I think we can say that as a rule universities and colleges – and their managements in particular – define their value solely on different types of research rankings, while most of the visible work of colleges and universities out in the “Real World” are their graduating BA/Scs and MA/Scs and to a lesser extent PhDs. The present “elite” rage in European higher education hasn’t changed this.

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