"This book looks at the controversial issues surrounding the desire for titles (both earned and unearned) in Zimbabwe and beyond. The desire for titles is often associated with the quest for status, power, class, and recognition. Unfortunately, the result of this desire and greed for titles means you can no longer tell genuine PhDs from fake ones"--
This book looks at the controversial issues surrounding the desire for titles (both earned and unearned) in Zimbabwe and beyond. The desire for titles is often associated with the quest for status, power, class, and recognition. Unfortunately, the result of this desire and greed for titles means you can no longer tell genuine PhDs from fake ones.
This book looks at the controversial issues surrounding the desire for titles (both earned and unearned) in Zimbabwe and beyond. The desire for titles is often associated with the quest for status, power, class, and recognition. Unfortunately, the result of this desire and greed for titles means you can no longer tell genuine PhDs from fake ones. The unscrupulous quest for fake degrees is regarded in this book as Titlemania or Taitolomania. The scramble for titles has not spared community leaders across the divide. Of concern is the failure by High Degrees students to use their earned titles to solve societal problems through national technological development. The book provokes debate on whether or not Africa in general, and Zimbabwe in particular, need more doctorates, considering that most PhD holders are not contributing to national development, production of goods and services, and the improvement of societal conditions.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Titles Without Meriting? Francis Machingura and Munyaradzi
Mawere
Chapter 1: At All Costs: A Doctorate Degree as Status Symbols in Zimbabwe
Reggemore Marongedze and Wellington Gadzikwa
Chapter 2: Mushrooming of Policy-free Doctor of Philosophy (PhD/DPhil)
Degrees in Church Related Institutions in Zimbabwe: A Theological Reflection
Robert Matikiti
Chapter 3: PhDs, Politics, Power Deployment, Hegemony, and Performance in
Zimbabwe (2008-2017) Pedzisai Ruhanya, Wellington Gadzikwa, and Alexander M
Rusero
Chapter 4: Mavaona here? Dhokota! The Nexus between Titled Leadership and
Problem-Solving in Communities Innocent Chirisa, Thomas Karakadzai, and
Partson Paradza
Chapter 5: Gender Dynamics, Academic Titling, and Leadership Dynamics at
Higher Tertiary Institutions of Zimbabwe Emelder Tagutanazvo
Chapter 6: Motivation for Doing Doctoral Studies (PhD) in Zimbabwe Attwell
Mamvuto, Francis Machingura, and Joice Tafirenyika
Chapter 7: The Spirit, Theological Training, and PhDs/DPhils Acquisitions in
African Pentecostal Churches Nomatter Sande
Chapter 8: Towards Unmasking the PhD/DPhil Illegal Credential Holders in
Zimbabwe: Reading from Inside the Black Box of Doctored Papers Lewis
Madhlangobe
Chapter 9: Preventing Excellence in Irrelevance: Interrogating Promotion
Criterion for the Universities Academe in Zimbabwe Ngoni Makuvaza, Jane
Mutasa, and G Zinyeka
Chapter 10: Supervisor Related Factors Impacting on Doctoral Degree
Candidature at a Selected Higher Education Institution in Zimbabwe Joice
Tafirenyika, Francis Machingura, and Attwell Mamvuto
Chapter 11: Leadership Quality and Qualifications: Reflection on Job
Performance by Titled Public Leadership in Zimbabwe Gift Masengwe
Chapter 12: Professional Titles Matter: The Impact of PhD Acquisition in
Religion and Society of Zimbabwe Bednicho Nyoni
Appendices
About the Contributors
Francis Machingura is professor and currently the Director for the Centre for Postgraduate Studies, University of Zimbabwe.
Munyaradzi Mawere is full professor of African studies at Great Zimbabwe University and professor Extraordinarius of interdisciplinary research at the University of South Africa.
