Recent publications in the field of doctoral supervision

Recent Publications in the field of doctoral supervision

Paper: Quality Matters in Doctoral Supervision - a critique of current issues in the UK within a worldwide context
Stuart D Powell and Howard Green

This paper takes as its basis information gathered by the authors as part of their survey of a sample of countries from across the globe with regard to national approaches to the purposes of the doctorate award and to the principles and practices of doctoral education.


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Paper: Assessing the Doctorate and Defending the Thesis
Stuart D Powell and Howard Green

This paper takes information relating to doctoral examination, gathered by the authors as part of their survey of seventeen countries, and uses it to stimulate reflection on the processes and procedures that underpin the way in which such examination is carried out in the UK and in particular to related comments in the QAA Review of Research Degree Programmes (QAA, 2007).


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