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Mexico has an interesting take on this: if you get into the upper echelons of academia you can get a salaried do-what-you-want-publish-if-you-want job. Some of
by marquis 14y ago
Mexico has an interesting take on this: if you get into the upper echelons of academia you can get a salaried do-what-you-want-publish-if-you-want job. Some of the country's best thinkers are paid to think.
- adrianhoward 14y agoSounds like the same take the rest of the world used to have - and still does in a few places. Ahh... tenure... how we miss ya. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenure_(academic) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenure_(academic)
- marquis 14y agoIt's different than tenure, they don't have to teach and I don't believe it's associated with a specific institution. I'm not sure exactly what it's called or how it works, I'll have to call a friend or perhaps someone here from Mexico can comment.
- batgaijin 14y agoCan you please post links about this? It's incredibly interesting, and it would be great to see what's the reason behind it coming into existence and what the output has been because of it.
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoThis is tenure. Most universities have it - and very few have onerous requirements.(#) Getting it is hard (MIT famously has <50% rate - that is after working outrageously hard till your 30's to become world class professor material, you still get 50/50 chance of packing your desk up - eat that "up or out" Management consultancies. That being said I suspect the tenure rate elsewhere of faile MIT tenures is pretty good. (#) Newton famously had to teach three classes, they were so impenetrable no-one attended the third. Literally the best minds of the universities could not understand what the hell the best mind was saying. He did not have to teach any more classes.