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14 mai 2018

PhD training – Why African government funding is needed

By Gilbert Nakweya. While international donor funding for PhD training programmes in Africa helps to accelerate progress and achieve results more quickly, financial contributions to such programmes by African governments are critical and have a range of long-term benefits, higher education experts suggest. More...
11 mai 2018

All teaching staff must hold PhDs by 2021

From 2021, a PhD will be a must for teaching at university level in India, even for assistant professors, which is the entry level designation for instructors in universities, according to a draft policy document, writes Neelam Pandey for the Hindustan Times. More...
10 mai 2018

Egypt Produces More Ph.D.’s Than It Can Hire

Al Fanar

Egypt, like many countries, is seeing an increase in the number of university students seeking master’s and doctoral degrees in the hope of securing a prestigious academic post, while the number of such positions is dwindling. More...

8 mai 2018

Rock’n’roll ou pas, les thésards en sciences de gestion d’aujourd’hui ?

Screenshot-2018-5-7 Education – Views Research – The ConversationDeux enseignants-chercheurs en école de management se croisent en coup de vent dans un couloir hier matin. Le premier a 38 ans, l’autre quelques années de plus… L’un se passionne pour la psychologie sociale, l’autre fait de la sociologie. Plus...

7 mai 2018

The Meager Output of Ethiopian Ph.D.s

Ethiopian universities now award more than 500 Ph.D.s every year, up from a low of 21 in 2010-11, but with disappointing results. More...

7 mai 2018

Fake dissertation scandal taints politicians, academics

By Emma Sabzalieva. As graduate students the world over know, writing a doctoral thesis is a labour of love. It takes a great deal of time, dedication and resources to make the new and useful contribution to knowledge required of a dissertation written at this level. More...
6 mai 2018

Whom Did You Thank in Your Dissertation?

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. Jennifer Polk set off an interesting discussion on Twitter by noting that she thanked her favorite band in her Ph.D. dissertation acknowledgments and asking others for unusual thank-you notes they made when finishing their doctorates. More...

6 mai 2018

Leaving Academe and Lost?

HomeJennifer Polk and L. Maren Wood give advice for Ph.D.s struggling to find their values and their voice after leaving the academy. More...

30 avril 2018

Why Your Advice for Ph.D.s Leaving Academe Might Be Making Things Worse

Why Your Advice for Ph.D.s Leaving Academe Might Be Making Things Worse
Erin Bartram, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018/04/13
This is a follow-up to the Erin Bartram story, the history PhD who couldn't find a position and left the field, writing a letter about her departure that everyone read. I wrote about it back in February. The Chronicle also published a short abridged version of her article. The original is much better and we know this because the comments that follow from the academic crowd that reads the Chronicle are, well, brutal and unsympathetic. More...

16 avril 2018

Doctorat : nouvelles mesures pour sa reconnaissance et sa valorisation

A l’occasion de la journée nationale du doctorat, le 27 mars 2018, Frédérique Vidal, ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation, a annoncé trois nouvelles mesures pour une meilleure reconnaissance du diplôme de doctorat au plan national et international :

L’inscription des doctorats au Répertoire National des Certifications Professionnelles (RNCP) : cela facilitera l’insertion des docteurs en dehors de la fonction publique et dans des métiers autres que la recherche publique. Cette démarche, entreprise en concertation, a abouti à la création de 22 fiches, qui seront appelées à évoluer et à s’adapter aux transformations des secteurs, des métiers et des activités. Plus...

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