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Being a PhD mum is tough. Balancing the dual roles can take a serious toll on mental health. To prevent that, various supports are urgently needed.
There’s an impulse by universities and media to inaccurately document hip-hop’s history. The genre is, in part, a response to that imprecision, a professor of hip-hop writes.
A reliance on foreign students for academic research has allowed the US to ignore flaws in its domestic tech worker pipeline, a scholar argues.
PhD programmes play a role in advancing research, innovation, and economic and scientific progress.
Doctoral students are an important part of New Zealand’s future knowledge economy. But funding challenges and decades of benign neglect have left the research sector struggling.
Better support for PhD students would help South Africa meet its national research and development goals.
A good supervisor can make all the difference for a PhD candidate on their tough academic journey.
There’s strong evidence that, all things being equal, leading South African universities provide “world class” training at PhD level.
In a complex system, academics and doctoral students must take part in collaborative efforts to succeed in their projects. Feedback after a seminar in Hong Kong.
Despite an international context in transformation, the doctorate seems to have difficulty evolving in Europe. What are experiments have been tried and what are the avenues of innovation?
How do we and should we work with the first generation “digital native” doctoral researchers?
There are currently far too few vacant academic jobs in Australia each year to employ all our PhD students. It’s time to rethink the training of doctoral students.
Completing a PhD is a process that takes years. There are several ways to make this a happy, productive time rather than a period of endless misery.
Doctoral studies are valued as an engine for development in Africa. If doctoral graduates are to meet this challenge, the very structure of the doctoral programme must change.
Suicidal thoughts among college students are more common than we think. Graduate students, especially those in the humanities, are at a greater risk.
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Docteure en Ergonomie cognitive, experte de la charge mentale au travail, Université de Lorraine
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Lecturer in the department of Languages, Information and Communication, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Higher Education, Rhodes University, South Africa, Rhodes University
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Professeur émérite de finance, GEM
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Indiana University
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Director: Doctoral Programme, Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Doctorante en Ergonomie Cognitive, Université de Lorraine
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Professeure des universités à l'inspe de Lorraine, Université de Lorraine
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Associate professor of Strategy, Director of Doctoral Programs, GEM
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Assistant Professor at University of Strasbourg and researcher at BETA (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg
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Dean of Programs, EM Lyon Business School
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