Kuala Lampur, June 2 -- PhD programmes in the country remain quite the rage. Government initiatives like MyBrain 2.0 (or MyPhD) and visa options like Graduate Pass have ensured a steady stream of local and foreign post-graduate students into our academic institutions.

While, as a whole, the increase in the number of PhD graduates should bring a net gain to our country, some issues have already arisen chiefly of which is the high number of unemployed doctoral scholars.

But I want to focus on another pressing issue usually associated with post-graduate programmes, especially PhDs.

I've spent about six years working with post-graduate students and one non-negotiable statistic stands out: The part-timers as a whole do worse than the full-t...