How many PhDs in the country?

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whackin

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i know its a question on the census form (i.e. to what level have you attained formal education) so does anyone know how many people living in this country actually hold a PhD??
 
That's also assuming all of those PhD awardees ( is that a word?) remained in Ireland though. I know at least one who didn't ( one of my brothers):) so I'd imagine quite a few have left.

Not to mention those awarded abroad who have come to live here.
 
At the event below, there was literature available that stated the number of phd's in the country. Unfortunately I dumped my copy but someone at IRCSET may have the details

IRCSET National Research Symposium 2006
“The Post-Doctoral Research Experience in Ireland”
Royal College of Physicians, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Monday, 27th November, 2006​
 
It's the highest level of official accreditation, I suppose. 'Education' itself has no upper limit.

Nor should educational attainment necessarily be equated with 'intelligence' — there are plenty of halfwits walking around with PhDs! :D
 
Related to this, what about 'professor'? Is the term merely conferred due to expertise etc or does it have any formal meaning?
 
In the Irish context (and many others, except the USA), Professor is a title/rank to which one is appointed, rather than an academic qualification. It would normally (but not always) imply at least a PhD and several prestigious publications on the part of the appointee. Or some pretty powerful 'connections'..! ;)
 
Thanks for the info everyone. I was of the impression that there might be less than 5000 but I'm not sure of that now.
A huge amount of PhDs awarded recently have been to overseas students (as far as I can see) so I imagine that might explain the difference in my own estimates.

I have mine anyway!!
 
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