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Graduate Studies in the UK: Some Impressions and Suggestions
Author(s) -
Holdaway Edward A.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1993.tb01626.x
Subject(s) - coursework , quality (philosophy) , administration (probate law) , graduate students , political science , public relations , control (management) , public administration , medical education , sociology , pedagogy , management , medicine , economics , philosophy , epistemology , law
Many western countries are paying increasing attention to the organization and administration of graduate studies. Such attention has developed from primary concerns about completion times, completion percentages, programme quality, and student quality, as well as secondary concerns about supervisors, funding, coursework, inter‐organizational co‐operation, and policies and practices of both universities and research councils. Using information about British graduate programmes as a basis, the article presents policy issues related to research councils, funding councils, and control, followed by discussion of the themes of the nature of programmes, supervision and evaluation, completion time, quality, and innovation. The final sections address several concerns and offer some suggestions.