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What is a doctoral student?

Doctoral students, that is, graduate students studying for doctoral degrees, are the highest level of postgraduate education. In people's daily life, they are admitted to doctors, read doctors and so on. Refers to a doctoral student. Strictly speaking, students who have not obtained a doctorate can only be called doctoral students; Only those who get a doctorate are real doctors.

Doctoral students are referred to as doctoral students for short, and doctors in people's daily life refer to doctoral students. Doctoral students are the highest academic qualifications and degrees in China at present, and postdoctoral students are not students, but the names of staff. Although its name has the word doctor, it has nothing to do with students, but its essence is the identity of the staff.

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The difference between doctoral students and postdoctoral students

1 and "postdoctoral" indicate an experience. Doctor is the highest degree, so "postdoctoral" can not be regarded as a higher degree than doctor, and postdoctoral researchers can not be awarded any other degree title. At the same time, "postdoctoral" is not a professional technical or administrative position.

2. Postdoctoral researchers are mainly engaged in scientific research, which is often exploratory, pioneering and innovative.

3. Postdoctoral researchers are official national staff, not students. During the postdoctoral research, the length of service shall be calculated as other regular employees, and they shall enjoy the same treatment as the regular employees of their own units in addition to the preferential treatment provided by the state.

4. For the station-setting unit, postdoctoral fellows are time-limited staff and are not included in the official establishment. They must flow out of the station after their work expires. They are actually in a state of mobility before they get a fixed job.

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