| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
|---|
| 284.1 | Check it out!! | STKAI1::WIDENFELT | Anne Widenfelt @SOO DTN:876-8335 | Mon Aug 15 1988 11:23 | 12 |
|
There is something called the International School of Stockholm,
which I suggest you contact.
International School of Stockholm
Johannesgatan 18
S-111 40 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46-8-24 97 15
Good luck!
|
| 284.2 | US & Nordic educator's titles compared | CHARLT::SAVAGE | | Wed Jun 06 1990 16:25 | 35 |
| From: [email protected] (Hans Henrik Eriksen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Nordic Scholarly Titles
Date: 5 Jun 90 16:59:25 GMT
In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] (Magnus M Halldorsson) writes:
> Nordic(*) USA
>
> professor (full) professor
> docent assoc. prof.
> lektor asst. prof.
> adjunkt adjunct (i.e. instructor)
>
> Can somebody elaborate?
The "Docent" title is no longer used in Norway, now they are called
"Prof. II". The only difference between a prof. II and a "full"
professor is #working hours/week (they have the same salary).
We have two types of amanuenses, the ones with a Ph.D. (1.
amanuenses) and those without, and they differ (a little) in salary.
At least at my department (Informatics) all the professors and
amanuenses are loaded with teaching duties (even the Ph.D. students
are!), to me their work and resposibilities are not that different.
I'm not sure what the differences between an amanuensis and an
university lector are, but a lector is a person with a master's
degree + 1/2 year pedagogic seminar (PS). An adunct is a bachelor
with PS. Most lectors and adjuncts work in college or high school,
none at our department.
Hans Henrik Eriksen ([email protected])
University of Oslo
|
| 284.3 | Swedish university titles, update | 63932::SAVAGE | | Thu Jun 07 1990 14:09 | 46 |
| From: [email protected] (Torkel Franzen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Nordic Scholarly Titles
Date: 5 Jun 90 14:21:41 GMT
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
My understanding, which is not entirely up to date since I am no longer
employed by the University of Stockholm, is as follows. (My remarks
apply only to Sweden.)
First, as pointed out previously, being a professor is a very big deal
here. At a typical university department there are perhaps two
professors, or just the one at small departments. Professors are
formally appointed by the government, after a not infrequently virulent
course of applications, appeals, etc. (Recall that all Swedish
universities are state universities.) Once installed, a professor can
only be removed by some all but unthinkable government action. A
professor, I believe, is the equivalent of an army Colonel at official
government functions...
A docent is, or used to be, one of two things. Either an "unpaid
docent", meaning that it is just a title conferred by a university on a
PhD who is deemed to have produced good work. (It used to be that PhD
theses were graded, so that you could become a docent on the strength
of your thesis and oral examination alone, but this is no longer the
case.) Or else a docent is a paid docent, which is not a tenured post,
but a research post that can be extended to a total of 6 years, or
something like that. Docents rank high on the academic scale.
Lektors have tenure, and it used to be that lektors were the workhorses
of Swedish universities, carrying most of the workload in
non-elementary teaching. (Professors only have a very small workload as
far as teaching is concerned.) These days I think a lektor may divide
his time between teaching and research according to various formulas.
In Sweden it makes little sense to speak of the lektors having few
possibilities of promotion, because the only tenured post above that of
lektor is professor or (the recently instituted) assistant professor,
and there are very few of these.
Near the bottom of the ladder we find lowly creatures like "amanuenser"
- I was one of these for eight years...They do a lot of elementary
teaching and various menial chores. Actually, in Sweden, they did: they
no longer exist. They were wiped out by a meteor or something like
that, and these days doctoral students get paid for doing the same
work.
|
| 284.4 | Swedish way of filling professorships | NEILS::SAVAGE | | Mon Jun 11 1990 16:18 | 45 |
| From: [email protected] (Peter Herman x5495)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Nordic Scholarly Titles
Date: 5 Jun 90 20:07:28 GMT
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Torkel Franzen writes
> A docent is, or used to be, one of two things. Either an "unpaid docent",
>meaning that it is just a title conferred by a university on a PhD who is
>deemed to have produced good work. (It used to be that PhD theses were
>graded, so that you could become a docent on the strength of your thesis
>and oral examination alone, but this is no longer the case.) Or else a
>docent is a paid docent, which is not a tenured post, but a research post
>that can be extended to a total of 6 years, or something like that.
>Docents rank high on the academic scale.
At least at Karolinska Institutetet there are "permanent docents". Our
host there was "tenured" and had the title of docent. He may actually
have been tenured as a lekturer and listed by the more honorific
"docent". However, "det spelar ingen roll" as they say since no one
ever refered to him as anything except Mats.
Most of us american academics are astounded at the swedish method of
filling professorships. Basically, you send in all your paperwork, and
wait (or get your political machine running, and then wait). A year or
two later, you know something. No formal seminar or anything! When I
asked about this I was told "it is such a small academic community that
everyone knows each other so why bother". Lots of politics and
infighting follows, but none of the application, letters, short-list,
phone interview, seminar-interview process that we suffer through here.
Having been on 3 search committees in 3 years, and having eaten 1x10E6
calories at dinners with job candidates, I'm begining to think that
they have something there!
*********************************************************************
* |\ |.\ /| |\ Peter Herman *
* |/ | / | |/ [email protected] Department of Biology *
* |\ |.\ | |\ 01-505-646-4532 New Mexico State University *
* | \ | / | | \ *
* *
* All opinons and spelling mistakes are completely my own *
* (och jag stavar lika d}lig p} svensk). *
* Who else would want them *
*********************************************************************
|
| 284.5 | More on nordic scholarly titles | CHARLT::SAVAGE | | Tue Jun 12 1990 13:30 | 47 |
| From: [email protected] (Bj|rn Lisper)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Nordic Scholarly Titles
Date: 12 Jun 90 10:22:38 GMT
Organization: The Royal Inst. of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.
> In article <[email protected]> [email protected] writes:
> Also, if I have understood correctly, the "professor" is the head of
> his/her department. However, in the (increasing) cases where there is
> more than one professor per department, is there a title to distinguish
> the two (or three)? What is the usual starting position for a new PhD
> in Sweden, a lektor?
(Full) professors are not [necessarily] heads of the departments here.
They are rather heads of the research being conducted at the
department. If there is research going on in slightly different areas
at the department, then there may well be more than one professor.
I, for instance, graduated from the Dept. of Numerical Analysis and
Computer Science at the Royal Inst. of Technology in Stockholm. This
department has two full professors, one in numerical analysis and one
in computer science. Currently I'm with the Dept. of Telecommunications
and Computer Systems, also with two full professors.
A starting position could be lektor, but that would probably mean that
you're giving up research for full time teaching. (This may change
somewhat since there is a possibility now to trade some teaching for
research in a lektor position.) If you want to continue a research
career, the best position is probably "forskarassistent". This is
mainly a research position with a little teaching (typically one course
per year). It can be held for a maximum of four years. I actually hold
such a position myself right now. The closest I can think of in the US
system is assistant professor, so that's what I usually call my
position when talking with US based people. Forskarassistent is not a
tenure track position, however. As a matter of fact, there is no such
thing as "tenure track" in Sweden.
> In the US, I believe that the adjunct position is different than that
> of an instructor. Usually, an adjunct professor is a PhD who holds a
> position outside of the university and only spends part-time at the
> university doing teaching or research.
This is exactly the situation here. "Adjungerad professor" is the
title. This should not be mixed up with "adjunkt", however, which is a
teaching position for sub-Ph.D.'s.
Bj�rn Lisper (Bjoern Lisper)
|
| 284.6 | Professors' salaries | TLE::SAVAGE | | Tue Sep 29 1992 09:52 | 32 |
| Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: [email protected] (Tomas Eriksson)
Sender: [email protected] (Usenet)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:30:48 GMT
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Sandt
Jyrki) writes:
>
>Associate professor A26 = 14102 FIM = about 2900 USD/month
>Full professor A28 = 17001 FIM = about 3500 USD/month
Do Finnish professors really earn this little? (I presume this is
salary before tax.) I hardly think a Swedish full professor (the only
kind that is called professor here) would get less than 25,000 SEK per
month initially, i.e. 21,000 FIM or 4,500 USD. A typical professor's
salary is probably 30,000 SEK per month (25,000 FIM or 5,400 SEK). They
can earn a little more if they spend their time shuffling papers
instead of doing research (can't really understand why...). Also, an
occasional professor in "interesting" engineering subjects with few
qualified researchers, or medical subjects, could earn more by doing
research alone. As I understand it, these salaries are almost
ridicuously low by international comparison, and more so when tax and
the Swedish price level has been accounted for. On the positive side,
the income tax has become lower in recent years.
Tomas
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tomas Eriksson [email protected]
Surface Force Group, Department of Physical Chemistry,
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
|
| 284.7 | Univ. of Tromsoe, Physics Dept. | TLE::SAVAGE | | Thu Aug 19 1993 13:45 | 189 |
| Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: [email protected] (Kjell Helge Strom)
Subject: Vacant professorships in applied physics
Sender: kjellh@mack (Kjell Helge Strom)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 06:37:15 GMT
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Information Leaflet
PROFESSORSHIPS IN PHYSICS
(APPLIED PHYSICS), UNIVERSITY OF
TROMSO, NORWAY
At University of Tromso, Norway, there are two vacant professorships in
physics (Applied physics { analysis, measurement and control}). The
positions are attached to the Department of Physics at the Institute of
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (IMR). The Institute consists of
department of Chemistry, Computing Science, Physics and
Mathematics/Statistics. The Institute is fairly small (approximately 60
faculty members), and the opportunity for cross disciplinary research
is very good.
The Department of Physics has for the time being 21 faculty members: 5
adjunct Professors, 2 university scholarship recipients and a varying
number of research fellow and personal scholarships. The Department has
also many dedicated students within the Cand.mag.(bachelor),
Cand.scient.(master) and Siv.Ing. (graduate engineering) programs in
Physics.
The activity at the Institute is geographically divided between the
Auroral Observatory (Physics, Electronics and Mechanical workshops),
and the Breivika Campus (Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Sciences,
Chemistry and main administration). The distance between the
Observatory and the Campus is 5 km. Undergraduate teaching in physics
is given at the Breivika Campus, while the research activities in
physics are localized at the Auroral Observatory and field stations at
Ramfjordmoen, Skibotn, and the arctic. The Department is also
responsible for the tutoring of siv.ing. students in Applied physics
(analysis, measurement and control).
The research activity at the Department is carried out within the
fields of radiogeophysics, cosmic geophysics, plasma physics,
atmospheric physics, astrophysics, molecular physics and applied
physics (analysis, measurement and control). The Department has also
the responsibility to continue the observation program of the Auroral
Observatory at the stations in Northern Norway and in the Arctic. This
encompasses among other things continual registration of the
earth-magnetic field, surveillance of the upper atmosphere and
measurements of the ozone of the atmosphere.
The research activity in physics has its origin in the activity at the
Auroral Observatory. The study of ionized gases - in space and in the
laboratory - is of central interest for the Department.
The plasma-physics group has specialized in wave phenomena and
turbulence in ionized gases (plasma). A new toroidal machine with a
radius of 60 cm, and a magnetic field of 0.4T is in operation. The aim
of this device is fundamental studies of strongly magnetized plasma
without magnetic rotational transform, and of stationary, magnetically
confined plasma, produced by non-inductive toroidal current drive
(steady-state tokamak).
The activity in cosmic geophysics and atmospheric physics is
consentrated with its investigations of the Earth's upper atmosphere
and the ionosphere using incoherent scatter radar (EISCAT), together
with studies of dustplasma. Atmospherical phenomena are also studied
using optical instrumentation from field stations at Ramfjordmoen (30
km outside Tromso centre), Svalbard and Skibotn (approximately 130 km
outside Tromso). The Department is also active in the work of
establishing a scatter radar at Svalbard.
The Department manages a 50 cm astronomical telescope in Skibotn. A
250 cm Nordic optical/infrared telescope (NOT) at the Canary Islands is
also available. The activity in astrophysics is concentrated in the
study of closeby twin stars, white dwarfs, and of stars where the
magnetic field is important.
There are also conducted theoretical studies in atomic and molecular
physics. This is done with close relation to the Chemistry group at the
Institute.
Within the field of applied physics, research is being done using
methods in digital signal analysis/image processing applied to data
from planes - or satellites remote sensing equipment, biomedical data
in connection with medical research and diagnostics, and
sensor/registration systems.
The Department has a relatively good equipped laboratory in
electronics, with competence in both analysis and using digital
techniques related to research done at the Department.
The vacancies is in applied physics (analysis, measurement, and
control). It is expected that those who holds the position will take
leadership in the research and teaching activity connected to the
Departments Siv.Ing program. For the function one requires a broad
background in one or more of the fields signal analysis, image
processing, electronics, measurements and control technique. It is
desirable that the applicants have research and teaching experience
from work related to technical projects. Experience from industry tied
to such projects will be an advantage. The Department will aim at a
close relationship between applied physics and the other groups.
It will be emphasized that the applicants can document relevant
background, and account for interests for and plans that supports the
research activity related to the Siv.Ing program.
In addition to these two professorships there are two vacant positions
as senior lectures/assistant professors in applied physics. The
instutute(IMR) has put to first priority two more senior
lectures/assistant professorships for the 1994 budget. Those who get
the vacant positions, will therefor have good opportunities to
establish an efficient research group.
50% of the ordinary working hours of the professor are assumed used to
research and professional renewal. The rest is to be used for tution
and administration etc.
The position is submitted to the standard rules of obligatory duties of
the University of Tromso. The applicant who receives the professorship
is expected to be the superviser of Dr. Scient., Cand. Scient., and
Siv. Ing. students in physics, and (s)he is also expected to
participate in the Departments undergraduate and graduate courses.
Applicants must participate in the further development of the Physics
Department, and of the University as a whole.
The applicant must speak and write one or more of the languages
Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English fluently. If (s)he does not speak
and write Norwegian, (s)he must be willing to learn the language.
The salary as a Professor is at present NOK 307.524 - 345.548, and
6.029 - 6.283 is paid as obligatory pension contribution.
The evaluation will take place in two phases. In both phases the
evaluation committee will, in addition to the evaluation of the
scientific work, place emphasis on documented experience from teaching,
administration, organizational work, and knowledge of, and interest in
the social aspects of physics. The applicants should submit information
and material to be considered in this evaluation, and give information
about possible references.
If the qualifications of a group of applicants are found equal after
evaluation of the scientific and teaching qualifications, female
applicants will be placed before male applicants.
If no one of the applicants are found qualified for a professorship, it
can be of current interest to get a professorship temorary for 3 year.
It will be evaluated to reduse the amount of compulsatory work related
to teaching and administration. Within these 3 year a new evaluation
will take place, and if the appliciants are found qualified the
professorships gets permanent.
Applicants must submit 3 copies of scientific papers - published and
unpublished - that are to be included in the evaluation. The scientific
papers should be sent within a month from the deadline to:
THE UNIVERSITY OF TROMSO
INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES
BREIVIKA
N-9037 TROMSO
NORWAY
Papers under work can be sent 3 months after the deadline provided they
are announced in application.
The application, including the curriculum vitae, certificates and the
list of publications are to be sent in 5 copies within the deadline to:
THE UNIVERSITY OF TROMSO
BREIVIKA
N-9037 TROMSO
NORWAY
Other information is given in the general rules for appointment to
faculty positions at the University of Tromso.
APPLICATIONS MUST BE SENDT IN NOT LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 9TH, 1993
For further information please contact:
Torbjorn Eltoft
Phone: +47 77 64 51 84
Fax: +47 77 68 98 52
--
//// Kjell Helge Stroem |e-mail : [email protected] ////
///Dept. of Physical Science, University|Phone/Fax: +47-776-45159/89852 ///
//of Tromsoe, N-9037 TROMSOE, NORWAY | //
|
| 284.8 | Comparison: USA and Swedish professorships | TLE::SAVAGE | | Mon Sep 20 1993 14:52 | 68 |
| From: [email protected] ( Hugo Calendar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german,soc.culture.nordic,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Professorship theory.
Date: 20 Sep 1993 06:29:18 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
There's a great difference between what a professor is in Sweden and in
the USA. A US [faculty member] can get his (assistant) professorship
just after finishing a Ph.D., which in some cases is at the age of 26
or so. After some years the professor comes up for tenure, meaning
that (s)he has his/her research/work examined to see if it's good
enough, and if so (s)he keeps his/her post, but is now called a full
professor, with roughly the same responsibilities as before.
In Sweden, it takes much longer to get your Ph.D., and there's even a
degree between M.S. and Ph.D., called Licentiat. After your Ph.D., you
can't "get" a professorship, but can go on working at the/a university
as lecturer or docent. You only get to be a professor if the Swedish
government decides that you have made a significant contribution to
your field, by which time you are usually fairly grey.
Comments on my limited knowledge of Swedish professorship are also
welcome.
Hugo
email: [email protected] Tel: +46 18 304458
snail: Linrepevaegen 48, 756 49 Uppsala, Sweden
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [email protected] (Peter Herman x5495)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.german,soc.culture.nordic,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Professorship theory.
Date: 20 Sep 1993 11:59:01 GMT
Organization: New Mexico State University
If you add up all the time between PHD and Full Professorship it is
about 15 -18 years. Even then, an american Full Professor can avoid
most administrative duties if he or she is not interested in
administration.
My experience with Bengt Samulsson and the other Professors who I came
in contact with at Karolinska Institiutet is that they had a very heavy
administrative load in addition to directing a research program. In
many ways a swedish Professor is much more like an american department
head or chairman. These folks spend a lot (perhaps all) of their time
handeling the administration of an academic group.
American departments are usually bigger than their swedish counterparts
so even this is not exactly a good comparison. We are a relatively
small biology department by US standards (22 faculty) while Kemi II at
the KI was about 6 faculty. I also get the impression that a swedish
professor has much more control of his or her group than an american
department chair has of his or her department (at least based on n=1,
NMSU Biology compared to Kemi II at the KI).
I don't think that it necessarily takes longer in Sweden, to get a PhD.
There, as here, there are a lot of students who are in no hurry to
face the job market
[email protected]
R. Peter Herman
Department of Biology
New Mexico State University
Box 30001, Dept. 3AF
Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
505-646-4532
|
| 284.9 | Teaching English in Sweden | TLE::SAVAGE | | Mon Aug 01 1994 11:05 | 29 |
| From: Michael Palmer <[email protected]>
To: International Swedish Interest discussion list
<SWEDE-L%[email protected]>
Subject: Teaching in Sweden
> Does anyone know how I can get information about teaching English in
> Sweden? I am an elementary teacher with a PA Certificate.
It is my understanding from Swedes that I talked while living in Sweden
last year is that there are so many unemployed teachers in Sweden just
now that there is no market at all for Americans or other native
English-speaking foreigners who do not already have residence and work
permits for other reasons.
Mike
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Martin Jaegersand <[email protected]>
To: International Swedish Interest discussion list
<SWEDE-L%[email protected]>
I think chances would be better for native English speakers to come
teach in Sweden on the university level than on lower levels. When I
took undergraduate English at Univ of Gothenburg, all teachers were
native speakers of English. On the Lektor/Adjunkt level its of course
hard to get a position, but the TA's were graduate students from
Britain and the USA coming over to teach for just a few years.
/Martin
|