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by chrisseaton 1687 days ago
How can you do 'full time research' as well as being an instructor for taught classes? Does not compute.

Day one of my UK PhD I was shown to my desk, told to start researching, and that was it. I didn't waste any time with any classes or teaching (I did actually teach for a couple of hours as a favour.)

As long as you can produce top-tier papers during your PhD then you're meeting the international standard.

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>How can you do 'full time research' as well as being an instructor for taught classes? Does not compute.

Yep this is where the gruesome part of the American PhD comes. And that is why in the first two years of the program the attrition is huge. In my class 50% had dropped by the end of year 2.