Doctoral education in South Africa : policy, discourse and data

Doctoral education in South Africa : policy, discourse and data / Nico Cloete, Johann Mouton and Charles Sheppard.

Worldwide, in Africa and in South Africa, the importance of the doctorate has increased disproportionately in relation to its share of the overall graduate output over the past decade. This heightened attention has not only been concerned with the traditional role of the PhD, namely the provision of...

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Main Authors: Cloete, Nico (Author), Sheppard, C. J. (Charles Johannes), 1960- (Author), Mouton, J. (Johann) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2015.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > South Africa.
Education, Higher
South Africa
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. The demand for a doctorate : global, African and South African contexts
  • 2. The demand to increase doctorates
  • 3. The demand for improved efficiency
  • 4. The demand for transformation
  • 5. Improve the quality of doctoral education
  • 6. Multiple paths to success
  • 7. Incremental change and a paradigm shift
  • 8. Policy choices and implications
  • Appendix 1. Data sources and methodology
  • Appendix 2. Responses to the presentation of preliminary findings from the Study on the Doctorate in South Africa (May 2014)
  • Appendix 3. Current trends in PhD studies : a review of articles published on the University World News website (2013)
  • Appendix 4. Government steering of doctoral production
  • Appendix 5. Additional data on the doctorate in South Africa
  • Appendix 6. Scenarios that will produce doctoral graduates by 2030.

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