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Diplomurkunde and Diplom (Diplomlehrer) in English?
This might be off-topic but I thought I would try here since I know we have people who will know the answer.
I have received two documents from a prospective teacher. They seem to be German diplomas ...
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Why should (or should not) a university have a policy of not hiring its own PhDs?
My university (in France) is having a debate about the relevance of taking rules for preventing too many of its PhDs to be recruited here, or asking them to have some postdoc outside the region ...
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Is it peculiar for a department not to have any of its own PhD graduates as professors?
I have been doing research into graduate programs and have noticed that some departments have a representation of their own PhD graduates as professors while others have an absence.
For example, a ...
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How important is the publication venue for academic hiring and grant applications?
A comment in this question says: but spending some money to publish in a high rank journal can open more funding opportunities in future, doesn't it?. In another post, JeffE writes in this answer:
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Should non-tenured/non-tenure-track faculty be permitted to vote on tenure-track hires?
My department has several non-tenured/non-tenure-track faculty in teaching-only positions. My department is also hiring at the tenure-track level this year and these non-tenured faculty are taking an ...
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What does it mean to accept a job offer
Related to this question: How to buy plane tickets for job interviews?
What does it mean to accept a job offer? Or maybe more accurately when have you accepted a job offer?
The latest and most ...
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How to buy plane tickets for job interviews?
I am currently on the academic job market, and scheduling on-campus interviews with institutions that might want to hire me.
Suppose I am invited to an on-campus interview at the University of X, and ...
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Working at a Liberal Arts College in Mathematics
I am finishing my Ph.D. in mathematics and am currently applying to many different schools. I would like to customize my cover letter somewhat for liberal arts colleges.
In general, what defines a ...
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Are pay announcements worth their price to hire people?
Recently in my university research group (scientific fields: computer science and bioinformatics) we had some open positions for PhD students and PostDoc.
For the hiring phase, we decided to insert ...
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Picking referees for a staff review?
For an interim (or tenure!) review, are their guidelines in place for choosing "neutral" referees, if asked?
Obviously choosing the PhD advisor (and probably postdoc advisor) is a no-no, but are ...
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Obtaining a US J1 visa for someone who has worked in the Middle east - is it possible?
The best candidate for a job opening in my group is Indian, lives in Europe, and has worked for (and visited / lived for short periods), a company based in a US-allied Arab country.
The human ...
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How should one turn down academic job applicants?
What's a tactful, respectful way to notify job applicants that you won't be hiring them? I see a lot of angry online discussion of this issue. Nobody seems to like the common "if you don't hear ...
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How to show interest in a candidate when no positions are available?
I occasionally receive "cold-call" applications from graduate or postdoctoral candidates interested in working in my research group. Most of the time, they are of no interest—it's just a "form ...
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Can American students do research in Europe with only a bachelor's degree?
It's not clear to me, looking over all the various regulations and requirements, how (or even if) it is possible for students holding a four-year or five-year bachelor's degree from the US can work at ...
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How important are teaching portfolios in obtaining an academic position?
I have been recently introduced to the idea of teaching portfolios, that is a collection of teaching experiences and references made by peer educators. Their supposed purpose is to go along a ...
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Difference between reference/recommendation
What is exactly the difference between a reference letter and a recommendation letter in Academia? According to Wikipedia:
Letters of recommendation are very specific in nature and normally ...
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What's the net income of a W1/W2 german professor?
I've seen a job announcement where the salary was said to be comparable to the assistant/associate professor level W1/W2 in the German system, and I was wondering how much it would exactly make in ...
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How to recruit a PhD student without a strong connection to teaching?
As a postdoc, I'm considering to apply to research-only positions (for instance in a research institute, and not a university), and I know that one of the responsibilities of being a researcher is to ...
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What are the most important criteria to consider when hiring postdocs for a research group?
One of the most important challenges that academics will face is group management. Although this takes many forms for graduate students, undergraduate assistants, and so on, I believe postdocs are a ...
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What kind of Visa is required to work in Academia in Japan?
As from title. What kind of visa class do I have to apply for, in order to work as an academic in Japan ?
