Professor-ship

[Pherstun]

What qualifications etc do you have to have to be a Professor? Is it something that's given when you've reached a certain professional level, and if so what is it please?

[gary baldy]

As is usually the way Wikipedia comes up trumps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor

[Pherstun]

Wow, thanx gary, I forget about wikipedia!!

[Peter Pedant]

Its pretty short on the English system- Prof, Senior Leecturers and Lecturers.....

These are all open to competitive entry and you fill out the form and turn up to the interview and tell the board why you think you should be a....lecturer or whatever.

My head teacher in 1964 applied and was appointed a English lecturer at Exeter U. Clearly he was going from full time admin in a school to lecturing students.

Just about every professor is tenured - permanent. And most lecturers are.

Not well paid - I didnt realise that professors were paid so little in USA. The difficulty in bio engineering and maths - software is that the universities want to get their puggy fingers on the professors good ideas. No reseearch grants and oh, every thing you develop, we want as well. This is a modern tension.

[PhilBy]

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. lol.