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Postgrads need more from MyUni
The federal government has missed the chance to capture prospective postgraduate research students through its new MyUniversity website, says the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA).
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I suggest that any potential PhD student who needs all information pertaining to supervisors, scholarships etc on one site for ease of reading should not be eligible to embark on a such a degree. Why you might ask? Which I find an interesting question, to say the least. PhD degrees are research orientated and hence if a potential student finds it too difficult to research which university, supervisor, scholarship etc because it is such a challenge and too difficult then they simply do not have the required and relevant skills to complete the degree. Enough students pull out of this degree as it is – some through lack of skills such as the tremendous amount of self-learning and self-directional research necessary for completion. Students should not be hand-held through this time – these skills should have been well and truly learnt during the undergraduate period. Hence a simply exercise in which university or supervisor should ‘I’ choose is the easy part. Tenacity is a wonderful characteristic which seems lacking in our technologically advanced world – one which makes individuals lazy resulting in anti-intellectualism. Please read ‘The Shallows’ and ‘The Dumbest Generation.’