Christmas Specials | Doctoral degrees
The disposable academic
Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
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This article appeared in the Christmas Specials section of the print edition under the headline “The disposable academic”
Christmas Specials
December 18th 2010- You choose
- Fire in the hole
- The U-bend of life
- The rich, the poor and Bulgaria
- Time, gentlemen
- Nasty, brutish and not that short
- A new Grand Tour
- The marvellous Magyar microcars
- Fields of tears
- Lights, camera, Africa
- A village in a million
- A righteous fist
- Wine and tulips in Kabul
- Rise of the image men
- Suitably dressed
- Illuminating a dark age
- Codices decoded
- The disposable academic
- Another green world
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