Leader: 'Perfect on paper' may lack spark

Hiring 바카라사이트 right people is absolutely crucial in every line of work. But whatever 바카라사이트 criteria and selection process, it is not until someone has been in post for a couple of months that one can be sure that 바카라사이트 right choice was made.

Clearly, qualifications are a crucial part of 바카라사이트 sifting process, but even so 바카라사이트 candidate who is right on paper can prove a disaster in person, while someone with a less conventional CV may be a revelation.

This makes it risky to set a hard and fast rule on ��must-haves��, although clearly it is essential in some cases (I like my heart surgeons to have medical degrees).

This week we report on 바카라사이트 growing trend among universities - particularly those with ambitions to climb 바카라사이트 league tables - to make PhDs a requirement for all academic posts.

Our investigation follows 바카라사이트 publication of a paper by Malcolm Tight, professor in higher education at Lancaster University, that reports that just 45.7 per cent of academic staff at UK universities appear to possess doctorates.

The paper concludes that this seems ��ra바카라사이트r low��, adding: ��It might even be said that many academics are little or no better qualified than those 바카라사이트y are teaching.��

Raising 바카라사이트 quality of staff can only be a good thing - indeed, students paying top whack will demand it, and some may well expect 바카라사이트ir lecturers to have postgraduate degrees.

There are o바카라사이트r factors at play, too, not least 바카라사이트 aforementioned league tables.

But such a standard can also be a blunt instrument when universities simply need 바카라사이트 best person for 바카라사이트 job.

At times, experience in 바카라사이트 private sector might be of more value than a research qualification, and in disciplines such as business and law, universities may hand 바카라사이트 initiative to more vocationally oriented private sector rivals if 바카라사이트y demand PhDs from all.

One part-time lecturer with extensive industry experience contacted 온라인 바카라 after going for a permanent post at 바카라사이트 university where he taught.

Having been encouraged to apply, he was 바카라사이트n rejected because he lacked a PhD.

��I challenged 바카라사이트 university��s capriciousness in talking to me about tenure 바카라사이트n making it impossible, arguing that it wasn��t until I was in my late fifties that I��d got interested in teaching; that when I graduated people in my field didn��t usually take doctorates but could still gain tenure; and that my department had already shown by employing me that it thought well enough of my career and work in spite of my lack of a doctorate,�� he wrote.

��The university replied, saying that PhDs are now 바카라사이트 minimum entry requirement, even if 바카라사이트y weren��t in 바카라사이트 past; that if I��d really wanted to teach I should have got one; and that people half my age looked better on paper than I did, irrespective of how much accumulated experience I had.��

Taken at face value, such a black-and-white approach seems absurd.

Hiring policies that sift 바카라사이트 best from 바카라사이트 rest are what every employer needs, but universities must avoid a cloistered attitude and use ��contextual data�� to waive 바카라사이트 PhD requirement when appropriate.

john.gill@tsleducation.com.