Apply for PhD in Germany?

Doctoral student file management of absence or PhD thesis score differences are a great tradition of German universities professor system, also referred to as the German classic university lectures, a professor at the university.

 

Taught "recently, the German federal ministry for deprived of PhD's resignation, caused international concern. International students in Germany of PhD graduates accounted for about 15%. The event for international students interested in applying for a doctorate in Germany what is enlightenment?"

 

Taught German federal department on February 14, was at the helm of the ministry for the last 7 years of Xia Fan (Annette Schavan, and sha wan) on February 5, by the university of Dusseldorf, stripped of doctorate awarded in 1980. Although she has been on February 20 to the local administrative court, this event which enter the judicial process, however, taught in order to maintain the federal minister for jobs of sanctity, she resolutely resigned on February 9, with the identity of the natural person investment legal fight. The incident of deja vu. 2011, doctoral thesis on a qualitative of plagiarism and is deprived of a Ph.D., the German federal defense minister karl-theodor zu guttenberg, baron and then European parliament's deputy speaker of the liberal Democrats in Europe and Germany parliamentary group President Koch - merlin successively dim and retire. This time, involving not only is a high-ranking politicians in Germany, and control over the academic power, people can not help but torture deep academic tradition of Germany and the rigorous academic style. Times have changed, the much transformed?

 

A doctorate in Germany's reputation is so suffering defeat, it is difficult to assert. Foreign students of universities in Germany all kinds of degree gainer ratio is about 10%, in the PhD graduates accounted for about 15%. In a population of 86 million in Germany, bo will lift is a self-evident truth. In Germany in 2011 to obtain a PhD is as high as 26981, the year of 25629. Since 2000, the Numbers remain high in 25000, basically and in half a century ago, the federal republic of Germany obtained Ph.D. Only about 6000 a year. Today, 1/5, chairman of the federal lawmakers and half of the enterprises have a doctorate.

 

For Ph.D. So, just because doctorates awarded in Germany is like a rebirth, since that day, formal appellation must be named a doctorate, even including id, all personal documents will be change, "Dr" as part of a personal name. Karl-theodor zu guttenberg, afterward, the green party proposal, at the end of 2011 to the federal parliament to ban the "Dr" into the personal certificate. In 2007, the federal interior ministry as id reform have similar reasons. But attempts to no avail, because "deutsche was based on the education of the people", this is a "title awarded to civilians".

 

"26981" is, in fact, in 2011 successfully obtained the number of PhD, as to how many PhD students folding halberd battlefield, nobody knows. Taught at the end of last year, which belong to the federal department of the university information center (ihs) released the results of a survey, forty percent of doctoral students considered doctoral study. According to the study of 2850 PhD students, of which nearly half doubt their ability to attack bo as the interrupt academic motivation, 1/3 due to poor teacher guidance. Economic factors in the 7th, but Po more than 3 years to consider abandoning doctoral students are mostly for scholarship funding period ended. Of course, family is an important consideration. Children education and bring up for 61% of the women doctoral dropout prerequisites, this doctoral student accounts for only 37% of the men. The survey covers the German university four types of PhD students: included in the official doctoral program or the graduate school of the school; As colleges and universities scientific research personnel; As members of the mentor research projects; "Stragglers. The refraction at the same time four types of doctoral training mode: mentor more interdisciplinary type, subject (type, hiring and mentoring to teach. According to the report, there is no PhD graduates, the optimal model.

 

Wide into severe out is a kind of quality control measures, the problem is that the number of doctoral students for universities in Germany is a black box, the school know next to nothing about it, is registered or not? Who is teacher? Selected topic? How progress? In the kingdom of the good accurate statistics, the existence of this phenomenon is quite odd. In scientific research institute of information and quality assurance at a conference last November, the experts concluded that PhD students in German universities are no independent status, if not to apply for a degree, they will never emerge. This is a historical phenomenon. At present, there have been many universities launch a response. Such as introduction of jena university 3 years ago, called "doc - in" digital doctoral student records management system.

 

Doctoral student file management of absence or PhD thesis score differences are a great tradition of German universities professor system, also referred to as the German classic university lectures, a professor at the university. Professor lecture system system based on the "academic freedom" for the basic law itself, legally to resist all kinds of intervention or intervention, including administrative and judicial, each professor in fact create each "professional small kingdoms". Lecture professor system on the one hand, a hotbed of lazy, not creative or no desire to work in Germany, a professor of university is not individual phenomenon, and gradually into a disease, in 2007, two professors published the "evil" professor: college lazy "behind the scenes, the revelation of the above phenomenon to ruthless. To safeguard vested interests between, on the other hand, the professor of "mutual tolerance law such as" blind spirit of solidarity, although to avoid any detrimental to a professor's reform measures, but also obstruct between professor and cooperation between the disciplines. Sociologists Lu Man (Niklas Luhmann) point of view, any attempts to administrative means to modify the measures of the "academic" individualism are futile.

 

Because of the lecture professor system, Xia Fan problems existing in doctoral dissertation of (mainly refer to specification) has not been found and corrected in time; Because of academic freedom, at the university of Dusseldorf, it could afford to disregard, any question about Xia Fan doctoral dissertation in the appraisal and decision are implemented in the school, deprived of PhD rights also will never fail. Karl-theodor zu guttenberg, after the incident, the German national academic committee introduced in November 2011 titled "were bo quality security requirements" files, including doctoral student guidance, criteria and academic influence. There was such a words: "if the academic (refers to colleges and universities - the author note) for their quality and evaluation criterion have enough confidence, so it can provide necessary freedom against powerful external testing and standards, to defend their own quality and evaluation rule." The jurist, Xia Fan administrative litigation fail this time.

 

Karl-theodor zu guttenberg case, Xia Fan in once said: "no matter how to I know, each person for many years committed to the Ph.D. Thesis will lost it." Germany's academic system must not allow the slightest lost, lost for a variety of pursuit, no matter how an object, no matter how long the past.