4 janvier 2013
Doctoral-level thinking: non-PhDs need not apply
By Elizabeth Gibney. Third of sector expects staff to hold qualification, FoI request shows. Elizabeth Gibney reports.UK universities are increasingly pushing for academic staff to hold PhDs, an investigation has revealed.
Almost 30 per cent of the 113 universities that responded to a Freedom of Information request by Times Higher Education say they have aims or commitments to increase their proportion of academics with doctorates, whether by hiring new staff or by providing training for existing employees.
Of those, a dozen have specific targets. Cardiff Metropolitan University aims to raise its level to 50 per cent of academic staff by 2017-18, Anglia Ruskin University has a target of 60 per cent by 2014-15 and City University London is aiming for 68 per cent by 2016-17.
The percentage of staff with PhDs at UK universities has already risen significantly over the past decade, the data show. Read more...

