Master TransportTU Delft’s new MSC program, ‘Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics’, is the first of its kind in the Netherlands.
The program, which begins next September, is also the first to combine three TU faculties: Civil Engineering & Geosciences; Design Engineering & Production; and Technology, Policy & Management. ,,Until now, it’s wasn’t possible to graduate from TU Delft with a degree in transportation engineering,” says Professor Bert van Wee, ,,Yet, there’s demand for it on the job market.”
China US-style
China’s elite Peking University will adopt a new American tenure-based professorial system. Peking University traditionally recruits its faculty members from its own graduates, and once hired they usually keep their university positions for life. But some view this system as a ‘big iron rice bowl’. Peking’s new program borrows from the ‘up-or-out rule’ observed by U.S. universities. Peking University lecturers will now be given 6-year contracts, during which time they’ll have two opportunities to promote to associate professor. Associate professors get 9-12 year contracts, and will have two opportunities to achieve professorship. Anyone failing twice will be fired. ,,Compared with the single chance American universities give their faculty members, two chances is already much more lenient,” a Peking University spokesman said.
Master Transport
TU Delft’s new MSC program, ‘Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics’, is the first of its kind in the Netherlands. The program, which begins next September, is also the first to combine three TU faculties: Civil Engineering & Geosciences; Design Engineering & Production; and Technology, Policy & Management. ,,Until now, it’s wasn’t possible to graduate from TU Delft with a degree in transportation engineering,” says Professor Bert van Wee, ,,Yet, there’s demand for it on the job market.”
China US-style
China’s elite Peking University will adopt a new American tenure-based professorial system. Peking University traditionally recruits its faculty members from its own graduates, and once hired they usually keep their university positions for life. But some view this system as a ‘big iron rice bowl’. Peking’s new program borrows from the ‘up-or-out rule’ observed by U.S. universities. Peking University lecturers will now be given 6-year contracts, during which time they’ll have two opportunities to promote to associate professor. Associate professors get 9-12 year contracts, and will have two opportunities to achieve professorship. Anyone failing twice will be fired. ,,Compared with the single chance American universities give their faculty members, two chances is already much more lenient,” a Peking University spokesman said.
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