You, the author, most possibly have no PhD.
by on Jan 19, 2008 11:48 AM
You, the author, most possibly have no PhD.
PhD is not at all similar to any other qualification, as there is a need to do original work, which in European and British system may take 4-5 years or more. American system is much easier, but even there it takes about 4 years. Only about 30 percent of the students get the final PhD, because most of them drop out in the process. There is an extreme chance factor as well. Because everything depends on two individuals: one is the supervisor and another is the examiner. Thus, any subjective matters can influence the outcome. Any small oinion can ruin the candidate. It is not thus at all the same as any other examinations, where there are many examiners who may not know the candidate at all. Normally those who get PhD spent their entire life in studies and research. There are of course exceptions like Man Mohan Singh and everyother economists who have joined the government or the World Bank or IMF or Newspapers; they need to wrote reports but they do not do any more research. That is the reason most PhD who are interested to pursue their scholarship do not join these services. Expiry period already exists in practice and it is about 3 years. After that one cannot claim any expertise on the same subject unless one would pursue further. However, expiry period does not exist for IAS, IFS, Engineer, Doctors accountants. They just get a degree and test for the rest of their life without increasing their knowledge.
