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While it can be said that there is ¡°an oversupply of PhDs¡± in Western Europe, the same cannot be said of the developing world (¡°Let the right ones in: limiting PhDs creates the wrong kind of elite¡±, Opinion, 5 January).

I say this as a doctoral student in Uganda. In East Africa, barely any university has more than half of its academic staff holding a PhD. The cost is so high that a country such as Uganda does not have a recognisable support structure for this kind of training.

Perhaps scholars in the UK and other Western European countries should look to internationalising their careers and consider time working in Africa ¨C although the pay may not be the same.

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Via timeshighereducation.com

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