Mancunian
- 2013-01-29
My questions are:1. In your experience, wherever you are, do people differentiate from a face-to-face PhD and a distance PhD done mostly online?
Correspondence Courses(by post) are and were looked down on; and now Online Courses carry the same distinction. In fact resulting PhD's are regarded as little more than fake or novelty degrees by serious-minded employers. They may be okay for getting a job teaching English as a foreign Language in Asia; you are certainly not going to end up as the head of a metallurgy department with a novelty correspondence degree. No, bricks&mortar campus-you must attend one of those. That's a thought, how on earth would you study mettallurgy by correspondence or online-the mind boggles?
Hi guys,
I'd like to ask your opinion on this issue as I get a lot of conflicting answers.
I work full-time at a university in Japan, where I intend to stay for the near future, HOWEVER I do intend to move to either the UK, New Zealand or Australia in the future (in 15-20 years time, I'm 32 now). I have a good MSc in TESOL for which I attended classes. However, this doesn't really cut it in the academic field, even for teaching jobs, so I'm about to start a PhD.
The three courses I'm considering are Birmingham University (UK) PhD Applied Linguistics by Distance Learning; Lancaster University PhD Applied Linguistics by Research Only (not strictly distance, but there are no required classes so I can do it mostly from Japan); Temple University, Japan Campus, PhD Applied Linguistics (this has face to face classes and supervision).
My questions are:
1. In your experience, wherever you are, do people differentiate from a face-to-face PhD and a distance PhD done mostly online?
2. How much does the university I study at make a difference? For instance, Temple a pretty crappy university with a good PhD program, whereas Birmingham is a great university but the PhD is online.
I'd really appreciate any input you have.
Jimmy