This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs
as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?
Not exact matches
Compounding the mismatch is the criticism that in many labs, this type of pre-professional training is not taking place at all, and that many postdocs are being used
as a form of highly skilled but
inexpensive labor to conduct the research that drives the economy.
By the 1970s, however, increasing numbers of labs had come to count on postdocs
as inexpensive skilled
labor.
It stands in contrast to the models of online education that preceded it, which involved either highly ranked institutions offering online degrees that cost
as much
as their in - person equivalents, lower - ranked institutions offering
inexpensive online degrees with low
labor - market returns, or a variety of institutions offering free massive open online courses (MOOCs), with unclear returns and very high attrition rates.
The low end of the range can be
as inexpensive as $ 50 - 75 (though we have never heard of the procedure preformed this inexpensively in Georgia) while vets in major metropolitan areas, where rent and
labor costs are high, usually charge several hundred dollars.
Utilize free or
inexpensive services that provide career counseling and job search assistance such
as college career offices, state Department of
Labor offices or your local public library.
Interns, also known
as Co-op students, have long been used by companies
as a method of getting some
inexpensive labor while providing a student with valuable work experience.