Quality and Standards: the Challenge of the Professional Doctorate
November 6, 2007 at 6:02 pm 1 comment
Professor John Taylor , Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy at Southampton (CHEMPaS), University of Southampton
This paper can be downloaded from http://www.wun.ac.uk/theglobaluniversity/workshop.html
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Professor Rosemary Deem | November 11, 2007 at 2:22 pm
The paper raises some interesting issues about the changing nature and conceptions of the doctorate (though it does not really deal with the thesis by concurrent publication or the UK ‘new route’ PhD as other alternatives to the conventional doctorate) and discusses the reasons for the growth of the professional doctorate, although it does not explicity raise the issue of how the professional doctorate is relevant to a notion of a global or globalized university. This is possibly because the paper concentrates mainly on the UK and the wider European context. Although the professional doctorate also exists in Australia and in Hong Kong (mainly in the latter taught by non UK HEIs) , it is not something that East Asia in general has chosen to do (it does not get mentioned in Wang Yibing’s paper, for instance). There is little discussion of the nature of the defence of the doctoral thesis and how much this varies around the world.