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Comment by vanviegen

6 hours ago

Yes! But if science is bottlenecked by funding, making it cheaper might help?

Not really. Grad students are already essentially working for free.

  • How many lavishly-paid deans and bureaucrats and administrators are employed for each grad student?

    • Generally universities take half the grant from the start and that's before taking fringe on top of salaries.

    • It's not easy to disentangle and it varies by country and institution, but those positions are not normally directly funded by public research grants.