Professor Nithaya Chetty (right) was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of the Witwatersrand in December 2019 and immediately started tackling the problem of PhDs – about what they will do when they complete the qualification.
He outlined his ideas in his presentation, Growing University Commercialisation through the Postgraduate Research Pipeline, which formed part of the discussion on The University as Catalyst for Entrepreneurial Change at the recent Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) Lekgotla.