Toward a global PhD? : forces and forms in doctoral education worldwide /

Toward a global PhD? : forces and forms in doctoral education worldwide /

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Imprint:Seattle : Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education, University of Washington : in association with University of Washington Press, ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 344 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Doctor of philosophy degree.
Doctor of philosophy degree.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11124057
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Other authors / contributors:Nerad, Maresi.
Heggelund, Mimi.
ISBN:9780295800486
0295800488
0295988029
9780295988023
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Universities and nations have long recognized the direct contribution of graduate education to the welfare of the economy by meeting a range of research and employment needs. With the burgeoning of a global economy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the economic outcome of doctoral education reaches far beyond national borders. Many doctoral programs in the United States and throughout the world are looking for opportunities to equip students to work in transnational settings, with scientists and researchers located across the globe. Nations competing within this global economy often have different and not always compatible motives for supporting graduate training. In this volume, graduate education experts explore some of the tensions and potential for cooperation between nations in the realm of doctoral education. The contributors assess graduate education in different systems around the world, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, the Nordic countries, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Many factors motivate the need for a global understanding of doctoral education, including the internationalization of the labor market and global competition, the expansion of opportunities for doctoral education in smaller and developing nations, and a declining interest among international students in pursuing their graduate education in the United States. - Publisher.
Other form:Print version: Toward a global PhD? Seattle : Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education, University of Washington : In Association with University of Washington Press, ©2008 0295988029
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Maresi Nerad, Thomas Trzyna, and Mimi Heggelund
  • I. Doctoral Education in Europe / 1. Germany / Barbara M. Kehm
  • 2. United Kingdom / Howard Green
  • 3. Nordic Countries / Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson
  • 4. The European University Institute / Andreas C. Frijdal
  • 5. The Bologna Process / Jeroen Bartelse and Jeroen Huisman
  • II. Doctoral Education in Africa, South America, and Mexico
  • 6. South Africa / Ahmed Bawa
  • 7. Brazil / Renato Janine Ribeiro
  • 8. Mexico / Armando Alcantara, Salvador Malo, and Mauricio Fortes
  • III. Doctoral Education in Australasia
  • 9. Australia / Terry Evans, Barbara Evans, and Helen Marsh
  • 10. Japan / Shinichi Yamamoto
  • 11. India / Narayana Jayaram
  • IV. Doctoral Education in North America
  • 12. Canada / Garth Williams, with the collaboration of Martha Crago, Jonathan C. Driver, Louis Maheu, and Marc Renaud
  • 13. United States of America / Maresi Nerad
  • Conclusion / Maresi Nerad and Thomas Trzyna.

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