{"id":2934,"date":"2011-09-30T22:01:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T22:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2012-11-20T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T08:34:38","slug":"what-we-know-about-the-dramatic-increase-in-phd-degrees-and-the-reform-of-doctoral-education-worldwide-implications-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/what-we-know-about-the-dramatic-increase-in-phd-degrees-and-the-reform-of-doctoral-education-worldwide-implications-for-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Know about the Dramatic Increase in PhD Degrees and the Reform of Doctoral Education Worldwide: Implications for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Theories of the \u201cknowledge economy\u201d view knowledge, and particularly new knowledge, as a critical resource to enhance a nation\u2019s economic growth. Governments around the world have invested in doctoral education expansion. Reforms in doctoral education are being shaped by the changing needs of society, of research modes, and of a changed labor markets for PhD holders. The reform elements strive for excellence, expansion, quality assurance, accountability, and international and inter-sector network building. The expansion in doctoral studies has gone hand in hand with an increased flow of international doctoral students, the wish to become a world-class university, and the adoption of more standardized structures and practices of doctoral education. This paper ends with a number of promising reform practices that may be useful for South Africa\u2019s expanding doctoral systems, such as the introduction of postgraduate schools that help implement and initiate innovations in doctoral education on a campus with an eye to high quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nerad, M. (2011).\u00a0What We Know about the Dramatic Increase in PhD Degrees and the Reform of Doctoral Education Worldwide: Implications for South Africa.<em>\u00a0Perspectives in Education. Vol. 29. No. 3<\/em>, pp.1-12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download:\u00a0<strong>What We Know about the Dramatic Increase in PhD Degrees and the Reform of Doctoral Education Worldwide: Implications for South Africa<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theories of the \u201cknowledge economy\u201d view knowledge, and particularly new knowledge, as a critical resource to enhance a nation\u2019s economic growth. Governments around the world have invested in doctoral education expansion. Reforms in doctoral education are being shaped by the changing needs of society, of research modes, and of a changed labor markets for PhD holders. The reform elements strive for excellence, expansion, quality assurance, accountability, and international and inter-sector network building. 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