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SIMONA CHIOSE, EDUCATION REPORTER ilSunday, May. 17 2015Extrait: How many PhDs does it take to figure out if the PhD degree should survive? Hundreds.That’s the number of academics, current and aspiring, attending a conference at Montreal’s McGill University this week that will propose transforming graduate school.“Maybe 15 to 20 per cent of people who enter PhDs get full-time academic work. That’s a remarkably poor showing. … It means that students who complete PhDs and put themselves on the academic job market and don’t get academic jobs feel like failures,” said Paul Yachnin, the director of the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, which organized the event.The Shakespeare specialist says those numbers show that universities must prepare students for life outside the ivory tower.La suite sur: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/preparing-phd-students-for-life-beyond-the-ivory-tower/article24472251/