Talk:Habilitation

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The Humanities and the Social Sciences are dens of iniquity, and Habilitation lets those better placed exert political pressure on those beneath them...

[edit] Comparison with UK etc.

I removed the following fragment from the article:

"these [higher doctorates in the UK etc.] are given in recognition of an extended research career, and would normally only come after some years at professorial status.".. this statement is INCORRECT. A D.Sc. can be easily awarded to those candidates based purely on the volume of publishing regardless of their status or rank (Professor, Statutory Lecturer, etc.) within a particular University system. However, the award criteria will be specific to the University itself. A typical criterion is that the D.Sc. may not be awarded before X semesters have passed after the candidate received his/her primary qualification, i.e. the Bachelor Degree. It is perfectly feasibly and possible for a candidate to hold a D.Sc. and not a Ph.D. Furthermore, it is also possible for a candidate to hold a Professorship without even holding a doctoral degree of any description!

An article should not contradict itself; this talk page is the proper place for discussions. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 05:02, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup and globalize

The lead should be more clear about what habilitation actually is. Currently it begins with "Habilitation is a term used within the university system..." – OK, it's a term, but what does it mean? The lead goes on to tell the reader in what countries the term is used, when it originated, what Latin word it's derived from... But only half way through the paragraph it tells the reader, rather vaguely, that it "is the highest academic degree a person can achieve by his/her own pursuit."

Despite a long list, in the first sentence, of countries where habiliation is known, the rest of the article deals with the subjest almost solely from the German perspective. The section "The process" begins with a sentence specifiying we're talking about "the German system" and the next section is "The German debate about the habilitation". The final section talks about similar degrees in countires where these degrees are not called "habilitation", but ignores the countries listed in the article's first sentence. What about habilitation in France, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine? — Kpalion^(talk) 19:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)