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> If research and supervision skills are irrelevant to a PhD, then we'll
> need a second degree. Otherwise, we'll be awarding two kinds of PhD: one
> for people who can do research and supervise research training, another
> for people who simply want to call themselves doctor. Unless we're
> moving in that direction, demonstrating these skills establishes the
> basis for awarding or denying the PhD.
many universities already have this system, but don't need a degree for it. in the u.s. that is, many universities maintain a graduate faculty who are almost all tenured with significant research records and only those faculty can be chairs or supervisors. this has been going on for quite some time from what I can tell. you don't need another degree for it, you just have to have the institutional design for it. entrance into graduate faculty is usually by peer review, though some places it is automatically granted with tenure or with full professorship.
Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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