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Re: Ph.D. Thesis Ideas and Material Available: Not a PhD?
Frank Nejad (nejad@aust.net)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 04:34:43 -0700
Alistair wrote:
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> Lapeplau@ucla.edu (Steve Gordon) wrote:
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> ::>Whatever happened to that old tradition that a doctoral candidate is
> ::>responsible for developing original research ideas and collecting his/her
> ::>own research material? Do our universities need PhDs who cannot formulate
> ::>their own research ideas and material?
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> Dunno about your universities, but here in SA we have a university
> that feels compelled to place advertisements in the press and on the
> radio (on the TV, too, for all I know) that stridently assert that a
> Wits degree is "worth more than the paper it's written on".
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> Unfortunately, given the fact that many people have come to view Wits
> students as barbaric hooligans, and certain of their senior staff as
> fraudulent liars, this institution is gaining an increasingly
> unsavoury reputation.
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> I'd say a lack of PhD who cannot formuklate their own research ideas
> and material is probably a relatively insignificant problem.
>
> Alistar
short of ideas?short of material? no worries try a real lif sitiuation:
1-Delays in Australian Courts.
2-Judicial collousions.
3-political influence in Australian legal system.
4-poor-v-rich.
5-corruption in legal systems.
6-professional negligence.
7-Retail tennancies Act.
8-Security for cost.
9-legal aid.
10-Discovery.
11-trade Practices act.
12-legal profession Act
13......
still short of Ideas? send me an E-MAIL!!!
Read an actual case which is still on foot:
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinosrch.pl?query=sanirise&selection=All+AustLII
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