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Universities, business and transferable skills

Government and the research councils have placed increasing emphasis on the need for postgraduate students and postdocs to receive training in business and commercial skills. But evidence of such training is patchy.

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Figure 1: The value attached to different types of training by PhD students and their expectation of receiving that training at their university.

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Universities, business and transferable skills. Nature 402 (Suppl 6758), 8–9 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/47105

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