Doctoral Examination: Exploring Practice Across the Globe

This book considers how the main doctoral awarding countries from across the globe examine doctoral degrees. It compares and contrasts their approaches, comments on their robustness and identifies examples of good practice and how these can be implemented.

Autorentext

Vijay Kumar is an Associate Professor in Higher Education at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Stan Taylor is an Honorary Professor of the School of Education, Durham University, the United Kingdom, where he was formerly Director of the Centre for Academic and Researcher Development.

Sharon Sharmini is a Senior Lecturer at University Putra, Malaysia.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. Australia

2. Brazil

3. China

4. Egypt

5. France

6. Germany

7. India

8. Italy

9. Japan

10. Kenya and Uganda

11. Malaysia

12. New Zealand

13. Russia

14. South Africa

15. Spain

16. Sweden

17. Turkey

18. United Kingdom

19. United States

Conclusions