Author: Paul Clarke
Date: 03:32:47 10/21/04
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On October 20, 2004 at 17:47:13, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >On October 19, 2004 at 21:27:16, Andrew Platt wrote: >>A British professor, who taught me at University, said that the only important >>distinction between referring to yourself as professor or Dr. came when making >>dinner reservations. In the UK reserve it under Professor and in the US under >>Dr. if you want one of the better tables! > >A teacher at a university or college can be called a "professor", even if he >doesn't have a PhD (in contrast to the term "Dr"). But in non-English speaking >countries there is a seperate word for "a teacher at a university or college", >and the term "professor" means someone with PhD but with higher rank than "Dr". > >So in the US the term "Dr" is better than "Prof" for common usage, while in most >of Europe it is vice versa. I'm not sure about Britain though. In Britain do >they use the term "professor" also for a teacher at a university or college who >is not necessarily a PhD? The British term for someone who teaches at a university or college is "lecturer", regardless of whether that person has a doctorate or not. "Professor" is a more prestigious title, usually reserved for a head of department or other eminent staff. From what I can dimly remember of my time at university, the Computer Science department had about ten lecturers (maybe half with doctorates) and two professors.
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