Dear Oguzhan Ozcan and Ken,

First, my apologies. I checked the recent Higher Education Portuguese Law 
(adapted to Bologna) and very clearly in a paragraph it is stated that the 
degree of Doctor will be awarded among other things to: "Those that have 
produced a significative number of research work that contributed to the 
enlargement of the frontiers of knowledge, part of which disseminated 
nacionally or internationally in publications with selection committees".
Shame on me! My own Law! Sorry again.
So what I understand from the Portuguese Law is that publication as a 
condition for PhD is from now on ON! The good news is that the important 
thing is the "selection committee", so there is a wide range of 
possibilities from proceedings to the top of the top journals. (the quality 
of the PhD programs would be measured by this, I guess)
If our Law would be strictly enforced, the Master degree should be highly 
focused in research otherwise how could you train someone during one year 
PhD lectures to widely contribute to the "enlargement of the limits of 
knowledge". I do not know how many countries are adopting such format or 
imposition, but as Oguzhan said the pressure is now to match the US research 
production.
Again, please accept my apologies and Ken, do you have any plans for the 
next five years or so?
 Now, this is funny Oguzhan, apart from Ken, in the North, our messages have 
been flying all over Europe from one extremity to the other with no 
intersections...
Have a nice weekend,

Eduardo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "oguzhan ozcan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: Answer not yet clear


Dear Ken

ENQUA and ERASMUS says all of research activities must be ¨high
qualty international disseminated¨.  and all EU idea is develop rules
until 2010  to compute with  north american research dissemination

Therefore there is no certain rule. But  Turkish Authority  look at
all these and  interpret
  PhD research must need to be published in indexed journal. For
instance  Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design
requires  1 intentional quality conference paper  before
qualification exam, high quality 2 journal published article before
submission of PhD.

Looking at this example, Turkish Authority looks at these Research
University and ask us what we must do in design research.

Therefore my original question what is your process.... What other
Countries thinks  what other European University develops what rules.

There is no argument if design research need publication. The time is
now to decide  how many publication and what is the quality level as
looking at North American University until 2010

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Prof. Dr. Oguzhan Ozcan
currently in MIT Media Lab.
http://oguzhan.ozcan.info
+90 532 284 03 74
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On 27.Nis.2007, at 18:54, Ken Friedman wrote:

> Dear Oguzhan
>
> Reading your answer again, it was not clear. My question is:
>
> Does the new Bologna process policy require doctoral students to  publish 
> a
> journal article as a REQUIREMENT for graduation or is it merely a
> DESIRABLE activity?
>
> In other words does the EU policy state that doctoral students MUST
> publish an article or fail to graduate as a consequence? That is  what a
> requitement means, and your post a few weeks back suggest this  policy was
> a requirement issue. Whether or not the journal is indexed is a  different
> question.
>
> I am asking about the specific content of the policy.
>
> If it is not a requirement, then is there a specific policy that your
> school or your educatioin ministry is INTERPRETING as a requirement?
>
> Can you identify the policy document and source so that the rest of  us 
> can
> access and read it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken