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Cuthbert, Denise; Molla, Tebeje – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2015
A feature of HE reform discourse is the tendency to construct the rationale for reform in terms of averting calamity and risk. We refer to this risk talk as "crisis discourse." This study examines the formulation of PhD crisis discourse internationally and in Australia. We find that a key feature of PhD crisis discourse is that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Degrees, Graduate Students, Discourse Analysis