Stefano Volpe 17h ago
If any PhD students are following your account, boosting would be appreciated.

Fellow PhD student: hello! ​​ I hope you had a good Monday.

0) In which country are you pursuing your PhD?
1) What is the official duration of your PhD programme? Does it assume you already have a Master's?
2) How many academic credits (e.g., ECTS) are you required to get in order to complete your PhD?
3) If you are paid for TAing, can you estimate the number of teaching contact hours you need in order to supplement other sources of funding?

My union and Ph.D. committee have been asking for feedback, and I have a theory I'd like to test. Feel free to use private mentions if you want.

Edit: I am now using "academic credits" to make myself more understandable to non-EU people.
Show threadJaro Reinders

@foxy

0) Netherlands
1) 4 years, assumes Master's
2) 0*
3) 0

* We do need 45 "graduate school credits". These are split into: 15 credits for things like writing and presentation courses where 1 credit is basically a full day course with some homework, 15 credits for summer schools where 1 credit is one day of a summer school, and 15 "learning on the job" credits which you get for supervising students, giving a guest lecture, writing a paper, etc.

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Show threadStefano Volpe 12h ago

@jaror ty!

3) 0Does this mean your programme allows students to live by w/o any teaching/TAing whatsoever?

Show threadJaro Reinders12h ago
@foxy Yes. I was told at the start that it was not obligatory. I'm now almost at the end of my PhD and I have given two guest lectures and was a TA for one (3 month) course, but that was mostly because I also wanted some experience with that.