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I must confess that I had never really made an explicit connection in my mind between a country’s social and economic development and the number of graduates holding a PhD or ‘doctor of philosophy’ degree. But my perspective on this shifted somewhat when, in April 2013, the Carnegie Cooperation of New York invited SciDev.Net to collaborate on an initiative aimed at “developing and retaining the next generation of African academics” — in this case, scientists and scholars with both research and teaching responsibilities at university level. [Read More]
I must confess that I had never really made an explicit connection in my mind between a country’s social and economic development and the number of graduates holding a PhD or ‘doctor of philosophy’ degree. But my perspective on this shifted somewhat when, in April 2013, the Carnegie Cooperation of New York invited SciDev.Net to collaborate on an initiative aimed at “developing and retaining the next generation of African academics” — in this case, scientists and scholars with both research and teaching responsibilities at university level. [Read More]