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- From: ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca
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- Subject: Re: 'Professor' in Canada - what does it mean?
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 16:37:41 GMT
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- (Bengt G{llmo, L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden) writes:
- >ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
-
- >>In any case, 'professor' clearly has a much broader range of meaning here
- >>than in Europe, incuding in some contexts the equivalent of a European
- >>lecturer and in others a European 'professor'.
-
- >There is no such thing as a 'European professor' (and, in fact, almost
- >no 'European' anything). The concept of 'professor' in Italy differs
- >at least as much from that in Britain as does the Canadian concept.
- >In Italy, as I understand it, 'professore' means 'teacher', nothing more.
-
- >As for Sweden, a department, e.g. the dept of Physics, will have a fixed
- >(or very slowly changing) number of professor chairs. A person is
- >appointed to one of these chairs for life, i.e. until retirement.
- >Unfortunately, some professors will make their contributions in their
- >first 10 years or so, and then just occupy their chairs until retirement.
- >What Americans call assistant or associate professors are not professors
- >in Sweden, except when they translate their titles for an American.
-
- I shoudn't have generalized so much but this description is what I
- meant by 'European professor' and is similar (I believe) to what is
- meant by 'professor' in Germany and England (and perhaps France too?).
-
- Werner
-
-
- >Bengt
- >--
- >Forwarded-By:
- >Bengt Gallmo e-mail: lmebgo@kiera.ericsson.se
- >Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson phone: +46 8 719 1940
- >S-126 25 STOCKHOLM fax: +46 8 719 3988
- >SWEDEN
-
- >The bad thing about good things is that they usually come to an end.
- >The good thing about bad things is that they, also, usually come to an end.
-