Re: Ph.D. Thesis Ideas and Material Available: Not a PhD?
Joe Weckbacher (wekjo@ezo.net)
Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:30:00 GMT
"Don E. Mullins" <mmull@texoma.net> wrote:
>Alistair wrote:
>>
>> Lapeplau@ucla.edu (Steve Gordon) wrote:
>>
>> ::>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?
>>
>> 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".
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I'd say a lack of PhD who cannot formuklate their own research ideas
>> and material is probably a relatively insignificant problem.
>>
>> Alistair Fall.
>All depends on whether they can spell "formulate" I guess.
>Moon
Why did they put that k right next to the l anyway? Us fat fingered
guys hit both!
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