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Direct linkLee, Alison, Ed.; Danby, Susan, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The number of doctorates being awarded around the world has almost doubled over the last ten years, propelling it from a small elite enterprise into a large and ever growing international market. Within the context of increasing numbers of doctoral students this book examines the new doctorate environment and the challenges it is starting to face.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Educational Change, Educational Trends
Peer reviewedBourner, Tom; Hughes, Mark – Higher Education Review, 1991
A discussion of Britain's regulation that master's and doctoral degree candidates must have two or three program supervisors identifies four potential problems: fragmentation of supervisory responsibilities; conflicting advice; unproductive games; and absence of overall perspective on the thesis. Experience with an improved, team approach is…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Faculty Advisers, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study
Peer reviewedHockey, John – Studies in Higher Education, 1991
A discussion of the structure of the social sciences doctorate in the United Kingdom looks at the debate over whether the doctoral degree process should be viewed as education or training, the situation in other countries, graduate student learning and development processes, collegiality, the graduate student-advisor relationship, and student…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Doctoral Degrees, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHoldaway, Edward A. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 1996
Drawing on literature; conferences; interviews in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom; and two surveys in Canada, the organization and administration of graduate study is examined. Focus is on program design and administration, supervision of graduate students, student progress and completion, and quality. Recommendations are made for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Administration, Comparative Education, Educational Attitudes
