{"id":305,"date":"2003-09-04T18:56:24","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T18:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parnes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2003\/09\/04\/i_have_a_phd\/"},"modified":"2003-09-04T18:56:24","modified_gmt":"2003-09-04T18:56:24","slug":"i_have_a_phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/09\/04\/i_have_a_phd\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a PhD&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are people with a PhD better than other people?<br \/>\nWithin academia there are many tasks that can only be conducted by faculty members. This is controlled by Swedish regulations but sometimes I get really upset when faculty members push the faculty requirement to hard.<br \/>\nE.g. what makes a fresh PhD that has been a graduate student for about 4 years more qualified to decide the content of a course than a teacher and researcher that has worked within the academic system for say more than 10 years? Another e.g. What makes a faculty member that is not really interested in teaching more qualified over a highly dedicated subject teacher (&#8220;adjunkt&#8221;) or research engineer?<br \/>\nShouldn&#8217;t the best qualified person be chosen for each specific task? Cannot a graduate student with a specific knowledge be more suitable to decide what is supposed to be part of a course than a random faculty member? I think that in a modern and adaptive organization this should the case, or am I totally wrong?<br \/>\nI have a PhD&#8230;  but am I proud of being part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltu.se\/\">LTU<\/a> faculty?<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">[Written while listening to: 07 &#8211; Hungry Heart &#8211; Bruce Springsteen &#8211; Best Ballads]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are people with a PhD better than other people? Within academia there are many tasks that can only be conducted by faculty members. This is controlled by Swedish regulations but sometimes I get really upset when faculty members push the faculty requirement to hard. E.g. what makes a fresh PhD that has been a graduate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/09\/04\/i_have_a_phd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I have a PhD&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drpeppar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}