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emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Is a PhD a required qualification in your uni? I know it’s expected, but there are quite a few well-respected academics, particularly in engineering and comp sci, who don’t have a PhD.

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saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It depends on the country.

Here it is required for certain levels of “quality education to students” whereas those with lower tiers certainly are allowed to teach some units, especially lectures. Obviously research it’s entirely up to whoever’s putting the grant up, but most papers these days are regulated by the academia version of a HoA, psych incidents as I mentioned are very dramatic.

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- emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  It’s regulation protecting the quality of education in the nation.
  
  I understand and agree with that logic (although personally I have experienced excellent teachers who had no PhD). But like you said, I don’t think it is a useful criteria in research.
  
  My personal opinion/experiences are that those that are the worst in their field are the ones that clutch onto their degrees the most and will think lowly of a mind that hasn’t amassed as much documentation
  
  Lol yes!
  
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