DURING THE LAST FEW YEARS there has been a remarkable growth in the numbers of graduate students reading for the PhD in physics at British universities. A time of financial stringency has now arrived, however, and, inevitably, many searching questions are being asked. For example: Are we training too many physicists up to the PhD standard? How does the quality of our PhD's compare with that from the best graduate schools in the US?

Topics
Education, Physicists
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