While overseas students still flock to the UK for PhDs, concerns are growing over weakening domestic demand, a decline in UKRI-funded starters and whether universities can afford to train the next...
Our PhD programme is unique as it is geared to support academics and professionals from different disciplines, especially those who value inter-professional collaboration within the settings of education, social work, and community learning and development. Our PhD students come from all over the world and there is a strong community that you will be able to draw on both academically and non-academically. We provide Research Methods and Generic Skills Training and students are assigned two super...
Universities are increasingly demanding that new academics hold doctorates in a trend that some believe could accelerate when the tuition-fee cap rises to £9,000 a year. The proportion of UK academic staff with doctorates rose from 48 per cent in 2004-05 to 50.1 per cent in 2009-10, according to data prepared for Times Higher Education by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Some pre-1992 universities, such as City University London and Birkbeck, University of London, have made PhDs a stand...
Health professions education (HPE) has matured into field of study that employs and produces specialized educational scholars. Many academic institutions employ such scholars to support development...
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The world is producing more PhDs than ever before. Is it time to stop?
Several aspects of the processes for the pre- and postdoctoral training of PhDs and the postdoctoral research training of MDs are critically examined. The size of the predoctoral pipeline, the sour...
David Wessel shares findings from the National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates data on the 1216 economics PhDs awarded in 2020.
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Sally Hancock, Lecturer in Education at the University of York. This blog features some of her research supported by a Society for Higher Education Newer Rese...
Our department aims to foster talented people with professional skills in education, leading... earning PhDs, as operators or working-level officers of numerous lifelong educational...