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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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paperbag princess wrote,
"i know two people who are working at unis without master's degrees. how is this possible?"
There are Korean professors that only have four year degrees. The university administration will change the rules (or qualifications for a position) in order to save money.
Gollum wrote,
"being on an equal footing."
Are you aware of the government's rules and regulations? For example, do you know the visa regulations for foreign professors?
E-1 Visa (Professors)
In the case of a national or a public university, a foreigner is not permitted to be a full-time professor.
http://www.moj.go.kr/immi/08_english/02_business/e_1.html
The ministry statistics released in April last year showed there were only 19 foreign professors out of 10,929 full-time faculty members at 32 national universities. It also said that the two public universities, which have a combined total of 471 professors, do not have a single foreign professor. There are two foreigners out of 1,247 professors at the nation's eight two-year industrial universities, according to statistics. Education Ministry officials said Korean professors and university authorities are still reluctant to embrace foreigners as faculty members.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2001/05/29/200105290017.asp
The Korea Herald -- 2001.05.29 |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 2:59 am Post subject: |
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| tokki wrote: |
| 9 hours teaching. Excuse me Real Reality, but of you think that a professor's main job at a Uni is to teach, then you are every bit the misinformed guy people accuse you of being. A professor at a Uni teaches as a side job to his real duties. Most of what a prof does, is research. It is research that brings in the big bucks to a University, and teaching takes a back seat to that. If you dont know this basic fact, I doubt whether you ever even attended University. |
I am sure that Mr. Reality is talking about Korean English profs. Their "research" ain't gonna bring squat to a university. Medical research, yes, languages no. But still, they claim that a big part of their job is research.
It is all a big scam. A huge percent of Korean English professors will never get an article published in a good journal. They will also never get published in a bad journal. But they all do get published? How? They have the same system in Korea that they have in every college and University all over the world. The school has its own press, which will publish anything a prof. from that school wants to get published.
One of the biggest scams of all time, is the publish or perish bit. Less than 1% of the world's tons of professors will ever be published in anything other than one of their own school's journals.
But, that few pages that in reality took only a few hours to do, and was published in their own school's press is what they use to jusitify light teaching loads and huge salaries.
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:00 am Post subject: |
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Worth repeating:
Kwangjuchicken wrote,
"A huge percent of Korean English professors will never get an article published in a good journal. They will also never get published in a bad journal. But they all do get published? How? They have the same system in Korea that they have in every college and University all over the world. The school has its own press, which will publish anything a prof. from that school wants to get published."
And remember:
A professor of engineering said it was common for there to be up to ten co-authors on a paper, most of whom have had nothing to do with it. Professor Kang at "D" University aged more than 50, concluded a secret agreement with a newly appointed professor to have his name added to papers in exchange for hiring him as opposed to other candidates. Last year, Professor Han at "E" University who had failed to be promoted managed to do so after his name was appended to his student's paper.
http://www.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200204/200204251020.html |
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