According to The Guardian page, there are currently three popular grades, including Assistant Professor (Assistant Professor), Associate Professor (Associate Professor), and Official Professor (Full Professor). In addition to Vietnam, China, Thailand and some Asian countries are viewing GS as a lifelong title, approved by the National Council. This mechanism has the limitation of "honoring" even those who have never worked or no longer work in universities and research institutes.

On the contrary, in the US, Japan, Korea and many European countries, studying the GS degree appointed by the University with many criteria for teaching and research. This regulation is intended to give autonomy to the school and bind them to continue to contribute to the workplace and the academic background in general, the honorable GS always comes with the workplace, such as “Professor Alexa B. Kimball at Harvard University ”. If they are no longer in school or stripped of their titles, they are not allowed to take the title of professor anymore.

Becoming a GS is quite difficult. The Smart Science Carreer page outlines the criteria that the US DH's GS Selection Board often uses to evaluate candidates such as having appropriate expertise, 5-10 years' working and teaching experience, and scientific articles. reputation, experience in many international research seminars and projects, have good relationships with the academic community, the ability to raise research funds.

In Japan, welding schools are often very considerate when appointing a professor to match the salary budget. Typically, about 5-10% of doctors become professor at one school.

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According to Thanh Nien newspaper