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"Young scientists at a Chinese genomics institute are foregoing conventional postgraduate training for the chance to be part of major scientific initiatives. Is this the way of the future?"
Maybe it's just time to re-evaluate our structure and flow of academic apprenticeship. I keep comparing the impact DIYBio can have to mainstream science akin to the impact blogs and the like had on mainstream media.
Time for a new type of science guild?
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Interesting background into academic degrees
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“Making media now is a powerful way of participating in all kinds of life, including civic and political life,’’ said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. “These people are now deeply connected to the political process in a way that their parents, at their age, could never be.’’
links for 2010-03-07
The Phd for scientists issue has also been one of teh ardent points of discussion in our weminar last year. The idea is that an extra diploma is not likely to bring you any extra perfection in your studied subject…
Ah, but it is like a certificate that you have perfected the study of your subject. That’s the catch.
Did you know that university degrees go way back hundreds of years. That’s the tradition we’re talking about.
And thanks for your comment!
Academic qualifications is not the most important, but indispensable.