Browsing Research Articles (Education Management and Policy Studies) by Subject "Doctoral students -- South Africa"

Browsing Research Articles (Education Management and Policy Studies) by Subject "Doctoral students -- South Africa"

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  • Expanding doctoral education in South Africa : pipeline or pipedream? 
    Herman, Chaya (Routledge, 2011-08)
    The purpose of this paper is to discuss both the status of the PhD in South Africa and the feasibility of the country’s aspiration to increase by fivefold the production of PhDs by 2025. Based on the first empirical studies ...
  • Obstacles to success - doctoral student attrition in South Africa 
    Herman, Chaya (Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011-09)
    The article explores doctoral attrition in South Africa, investigating and comparing the attributions of attrition of doctoral students and PhD programme leaders. The article is based on secondary data analysis of two large ...
  • Purpose of the PhD - a South African perspective 
    Herman, Chaya (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012-03)
    The article sets out to explore how PhD programme leaders in South Africa view the purpose of the PhD, and how their views shape their responses to recent policies with regard to the PhD. If refers in particular to the ...
  • Student mobility and doctoral education in South Africa 
    Sehoole, Molatlhegi Trevor Chika (Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011-09)
    This article analyses doctoral education programmes in South Africa with a particular focus on student mobility. It investigates pull and push factors as a conceptual framework, arguing that the patterns of student mobility ...