Real value!

(Baonghean) - Last week, in addition to the unusual fish deaths that caused endless pain to the coastal villages in the Central region, which shook and worried the whole country, there was another incident that also surprised and dismayed the public when they learned the truth about a "doctoral incubator".

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On average, this furnace produces a PhD every 15 minutes. This, without being rude, is no different from super-egg chickens and ducks. This does not kill any tangible entity such as fish or shrimp, for example. But it kills something invisible but extremely important, which is the belief and the intellectual team of the country. Of course, intellectuals here are called according to the criteria of degrees, but based on the substance, calling it that way is not necessarily accurate.

Explaining the cause of the “inflation” of PhDs, some people believe that it is the result of the mentality of chasing after degrees and being greedy for fame, even if it is a false title. Seeing a degree as a kind of jewelry that adds to one’s elegance. On the surface it looks like that, but in fact it is not false at all, but from that low-quality PhD it brings the owner of the PhD title very real and not small benefits. As the principal of Thai Nguyen University has admitted: having a PhD is considered to be promoted to positions, for example, if you are not a PhD, you cannot be the head of a department or faculty.

In research institutes, one must have a doctorate degree to be able to master scientific topics of this level or that level with a budget of this or that billion. And cars and houses come from that. Without a doctorate degree, one will be hungry for a long time. In reality, not only in schools or research institutes where a doctorate degree is needed to serve the public, but in any agency in the public apparatus, having a doctorate degree will help one achieve titles and salaries more easily and more.

Even though daily leadership and management work is not related to or necessary for a doctorate degree. Because sometimes the major trained has nothing to do with the assigned position and tasks. But with that degree, the structure of the apparatus is much more convenient, leadership and management are much more convenient. And once you have power, money will come immediately. Therefore, in our country, people compete to get a doctorate degree not to equip themselves with more knowledge, to better serve their work, but to have an additional tool to support making money easier and more effectively.

Because of this concept, people are willing to spend a lot of money to "buy" that "support tool". This is similar to a farmer saving up to buy a tractor to help him work more productively in the fields, to earn more money. If there is a purchase, there must be a sale. People sell openly through evaluation boards. Therefore, to get a doctorate degree now, one must spend several hundred million, sometimes up to half a billion. The cost of typing, purchasing documents, and translation is very little, but mainly for envelopes, envelopes scattered from top to bottom. From the instructor to the reviewer, the evaluation board.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why many doctoral theses with useless or even silly topics are still passed and successfully defended. For money and for the small benefits in front of people, they just let it go and forgive each other. Whoever is strict and does not forgive will not be invited to the council next time and will not be able to play with people in the industry anymore. If they do not play together, they will not tell each other, and if they invite each other to cooperate on scientific topics, they will not have money anymore.

Ultimately, everything is worse because of money. That is why there is a paradox that farmers with no qualifications in the mud have invented all kinds of machines to serve labor and production, and there are 24 thousand PhDs in our country, who in the past few years have not produced any useful tools for life. Yet no one feels embarrassed. The integrity and self-respect of scholars have been taken over by money. What is more painful than that? The worst thing is that those PhDs with real degrees and fake qualifications continue to teach students, guide others and continue to produce PhDs who are no different from them and sometimes even worse than them. The consequences will be unpredictable.

To be honest, if a doctorate in our country only satisfies academic needs without opening the way to access money and power, perhaps even if it were given away for free, few people would want to receive it, let alone spend money and effort to buy it. Therefore, do not say that the doctorate inflation in our country is chasing after false reputations and virtual values, but chasing after a very real value, which is money. And that is also the real value in our doctorate.

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