Re: [tlug] OT: falling intake

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Raymond Wan writes:

 > http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110420/full/472276a.html
 > 
 > Title of the article is "The PhD Factory".
 > 
 > Of course, this article is from 2011 (already 3 years out of 
 > date)

Interesting read, and hardly out of date (at least in Japan and China
the situation hasn't changed).  I suspect that a major defect in the
discussion is that it lumps all PhDs together (OK, "natural sciences",
but that's a *lot* of very different fields.