What standards must professors and associate professors meet?
Current standards for the titles of professor and associate professor do not require international scientific publications.
The appointment of the titles of professor and associate professor is regulated inDecision No. 174 of 2008of the Prime Minister. According toArticle 8, professors and associate professors must meet the following general standards:have a doctorate degree for at least 36 months from the date of the decision to grant the degree to the deadline for application submission. The major trained must be appropriate to the major of the registered position to be considered eligible.
If the candidate has a doctorate but has not completed 36 months by the application deadline, he/she must have twice the number of converted scientific works as the general standard, including scientific articles and works done in the last three years.
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In addition to general standards, professors and associate professors also have their own standards, including having a doctorate and being able to communicate in English. Illustrative photo |
Candidates for the title of professor or associate professor must have a sufficient number of converted scientific works according to the regulations of the Minister of Education and Training.
Of which, at least 50% of the scientific works are converted from scientific articles and 25% of the converted scientific works are carried out in the last three years up to the deadline for submission of documents.
These people must be proficient in a foreign language for professional work and be able to communicate in English.
Candidates meet the standards for the title of professor or associate professor when they have the number of votes of confidence from the total number of members of the Professor Title Council from 2/3 or more at the grassroots level; from 3/4 at the industry and interdisciplinary level and from 2/3 at the State level.
Standards for the title of associate professor
In addition to meeting the general standards, candidates for the title of associate professor need to meet the following requirements:
The first, have at least six years of experience in teaching and education at university level or higher. Of which the last three years up to the deadline for submitting the application must be spent in teaching and education at university level or higher.
Teachers with more than 10 years of continuous work experience at a higher education institution by the application deadline, if in the last three years there is a period of internship to improve qualifications or training of no more than 12 months, this internship period will not be counted as an interruption of the last three years.
Teachers who have not had six years of experience in education and teaching at university level or higher must have at least twice the number of converted scientific works as prescribed standards and the last three years of experience up to the deadline for submitting the application must be training at university level or higher.
Teachers with a doctorate in science as prescribed by the Minister of Education and Training must have at least one year of seniority by the deadline for submitting the application directly training at university level or higher.
Monday, the candidate must have supervised at least two graduate students who have successfully defended their master's theses, or supervised (mainly or secondary) a doctoral student who has successfully defended his or her doctoral thesis.
Tuesday, the candidate must preside over at least two basic-level scientific research topics, or one ministerial-level scientific research topic, or a higher-level topic that has been accepted with results of satisfactory or higher.
Standards for the title of professor
The first, candidates for the title of professor must be associate professors who have been appointed for 3 years or more by the application deadline.
Monday, the candidate must guideAt least two doctoral students successfully defended their dissertations.
Tuesday, candidates must bCompile books for use in training from university level and above suitable for the major considered for recognition of meeting the standards for the title of professor. This book has been published and submitted for deposit before the application deadline.
Final, candidates need to preside over at least one ministerial-level scientific research project or a higher-level project that has been accepted with results of satisfactory or higher.
In January 2017, the Ministry of Education and Training announced the draft Regulations on standards and procedures for appointment and dismissal of professors and associate professors. Compared to the current regulations, the new standards are more numerous and higher, especially candidates must have international scientific publications. Specifically, by 2019, candidates for the title of professor in the field of Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology must be the main author and have published at least 2 scientific articles in international scientific journals in the ISI, Scopus system; or have at least one scientific article in the ISI, Scopus system and a book or book chapter for training published by a reputable publisher in the world; or at least one scientific article in the ISI, Scopus system and a patent. Candidates in the Social Sciences and Humanities group are the main author and have published at least one scientific article in an international scientific journal in the ISI and Scopus systems. This draft later received many mixed opinions, so in 2017, the criteria of Decision 174 (2008) were still applied to consider and recognize the titles of professor and associate professor. In this review, more than 1,200 people met the standards of professor and associate professor, 1.7 times more than in 2016 and 2.3 times more than in 2015. |
