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Doctoral Education in South Africa : Policy, Discourse and Data /
Worldwide, in Africa and in South Africa, the importance of the doctorate has increased disproportionately in relation to its share of the overall graduate output over the past decade. This heightened attention has not only been concerned with the traditional role of the PhD, namely the provision of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cape Town :
African Minds,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; About the authors; List of frequently used acronyms; Chapter 1: The demand for a doctorate: Global, African and South African contexts; Chapter 2: The demand to increase doctorates; Chapter 3: The demand for improved efficiency; Chapter 4: The demand for transformation; Chapter 5: Improve the quality of doctoral education; Chapter 6: Multiple paths to success; Chapter 7: Incremental change and a paradigm shift; Chapter 8: Policy choices and implications; Appendix 1: Data sources and methodology.
- Appendix 2: Responses to the presentation of preliminary findings from the Study on the Doctorate in South Africa (May 2014)Appendix 3: Current trends in PhD studies: A review of articles published on the University World News website (2013); Appendix 4: Government steering of doctoral production; Appendix 5: Additional data on the doctorate in South Africa; Appendix 6: Scenarios that will produce doctoral graduates by 2030; References.