Open AccessSupervision of Graduate Students
Author(s) -
Edward A. Holdaway,
Claude Deblois,
Ian Winchester
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
canadian journal of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2293-6602
pISSN - 0316-1218
DOI - 10.47678/cjhe.v25i3.183220
Subject(s) - graduate students , graduate education , medical education , higher education , graduate research , quality (philosophy) , psychology , political science , sociology , pedagogy , medicine , philosophy , epistemology , law
Graduate education is an essential component of universities; it also contributes substantially to national economies. However, problems in graduate education, especially with respect to completion and quality, have emerged in many countries, including Canada. To address these problems and related issues and practices, a comprehensive three-year research project has been conducted involving questionnaires and interviews in Canada, Australia, Great Britain, and other countries. This paper presents information from questionnaires completed in 1993 by 736 supervisors of graduate students in 37 universities across Canada. Many substantial differences were obtained between the means for items when respondents were classified into eight discipline areas. The responses related to master's and doctoral programs were generally similar.