Abstract
![CDATA[While debates about access and equity in undergraduate education have been ongoing for some time, a comparable agenda is only just emerging for research, including doctoral, education. In analysing the UK scene, McCulloch and Thomas (2013) outline three reasons: first, the rise of the undergraduate degree as the new minimum-entry qualification for work is pushing the expansion of postgraduate education as a ‘point of difference’ for employability; second, universities are recognising the vital contribution research students make to national research quality assessment exercises; and third, governments see the creation of new knowledge as central to flourishing economies. McCulloch and Thomas (2013) argue that, taken together, these three impulses are drawing attention to critical questions about who is accessing research education and the barriers to succeeding. In South Africa, while Herman (2011) notes a national agenda to increase doctoral education enrolments fivefold – particularly the enrolment and graduation of under-represented and black students – the development of a pipeline of such students is an ongoing challenge.]]
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Academic Life in the Measured University: Pleasures, Paradoxes and Politics: 5th International Academic Identities Conference (ACIDC 2016), Wednesday 29 June - Friday 1 July 2016, Sydney, N.S.W. |
Publisher | University of Sydney Press |
Number of pages | 3 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Event | International Academic Identities Conference - Duration: 1 Jan 2016 → … |
Conference
Conference | International Academic Identities Conference |
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Period | 1/01/16 → … |
Keywords
- education, higher
- doctoral students
- educational equalization