On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 04:37:25PM +0100, David Squire wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:32:04AM +0200, Wolfgang Müller wrote: > > > >>Busy: yes. Sorry for that. > >>Professor: no. I am still waiting to become associate prof. Under that, > >>people in germany are not called professor. > >> > > > >Sorry about that, in my experience at local universities, the only people > >I run > >into with a "Dr." atached to their names are professors. ;) > > > > Let me guess... you are in the States? (Well, your ISP is in Arkansas :) > ) The rest of the world uses the term "Professor" very differently. In > Australia, the UK, and most if not all of the Commonwealth, only the > very most senior academics are Professors (e.g. Head of Department or > School, and not necessarily even then). I believe this is similar in > most of Europe. >
You guessed it! and of course, being an american, i'm convinced that everything outside is sticks, and mud huts, right? ;) > For example, in Australia it goes: > > Assistant Lecturer > Lecturer > Senior Lecturer > Associate Professor (or Reader) > Professor > Death > > Cheers, > > David > Thanks for the info. here, they start at associate professor. and boy, do us americans have a low opinion of "professors" as a result. ;) I spent three years as technical staff of a local university. low opinion dosent cover it. :) > > -- > Dr David McG. Squire, Senior Lecturer, on sabbatical in 2006 > Caulfield School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia > CRICOS Provider No. 00008C http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davids/ Julia Longtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No Degrees, No Medals, Hell, barely passed high school! *tinkers more with gift's internals* _______________________________________________ help-GIFT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gift
