Only 1 in 5 Canadians with PhDs land a tenure-track job in their field

By Anna Maria Tremonti. Earning a PhD takes a lot of hard work and study and student loans, and it means spending extra years in school, after your peers have graduated and gone onto to the so-called "real world."
But a PhD comes with a tenure-track job, a respected professorship, a lifetime of rewarding, intellectual work in your chosen field. Or at least, that's how it was supposed to go. But many recently minted Canadian PhDs can tell you it certainly doesn't go that way. More...