Title:
Doctoral study in contemporary higher education
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Maidenhead, Berkshire : Open University Press, 2005
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9780335214747
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Summary
Summary
Covers the differing kinds of doctorate award and discusses critically issues that arise from the ways in which related forms of doctoral study are organized and assessed. This book focuses on doctoral study, in its various forms, in the higher education sector in the United Kingdom.
Table of Contents
| Foreword |
| Preface |
| Acknowledgements |
| List of abbreviations |
| Part 1 Context |
| The origins, issues and recent development of doctoral study in the UK |
| Doctoral study, Government and the workplace |
| Part 2 Range of doctoral awards in the UK |
| The PhD and the diversity of doctoral study |
| The PhD by published work |
| Professional doctorates |
| Practice-based doctorates |
| Part 3 Issues surrounding the development of doctoral study |
| Funding of doctoral programmes |
| Length of doctoral training programmes |
| Part 4 Managing doctoral study |
| The nature of doctoral supervision |
| Monitoring and assessment |
| Principles and purposes of doctoral examination |
| Processes of examining the doctorate |
| Part 5 The future of the doctorate |
| Future directions |
| References |
| Index |
