"This book provides an authoritative overview of the criteria and standards of the doctorate across a wide range of international settings, with a particular focus on the practices of examining. Presenting case studies and research from 13 universities in 13 countries across Africa, Asia, North and South America, Australia and Europe, the book is based on in-depth interviews and comparative analyses of the PhD examining experience. It reveals the variations and similarities in different academic traditions and investigates the extent to which there are comparable expectations and standards across countries. It suggests that criteria and standards - both written and unwritten - are broadly similar, but shows that there is a need for much more explicitly formulated criteria and standards for an internationalised approach to doctoral assessment. Following on from the 2019 book The Doctorate as Experience in Europe and Beyond, this book will be of great interest to current and potential doctoral examiners, researchers of higher education and university administrators"--
This book provides an authoritative overview of the criteria and standards of the doctorate across a wide range of international settings, with a particular focus on the practices of examining.
Presenting case studies and research from 13 universities in 13 countries across Africa, Asia, North and South America, Australia, and Europe, the book is based on in-depth interviews and comparative analyses of the PhD examining experience. It reveals the variations and similarities in different academic traditions and investigates the extent to which there are comparable expectations and standards across countries. It suggests that criteria and standards both written and unwritten are broadly similar, but shows that there is a need for much more explicitly formulated criteria and standards for an internationalised approach to doctoral assessment.
Following on from the 2019 book The Doctorate as Experience in Europe and Beyond, this book will be of great interest to current and potential doctoral examiners, researchers of higher education, and university administrators.
This book provides an authoritative overview of the criteria and standards of the doctorate across a wide range of international settings, with a particular focus on the practices of examining.
1. Introduction Part I: Transversal studies
2. Standards and criteria:
Is there a case for international comparability?
3. The experience of
examiners and examining
4. The final oral examination
5. The role of
languages in doctoral examination Part II: Case studies of universities
Africa
6. Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique
7. Makerere University,
Uganda Asia
8. Beijing Language and Culture University, China
9. A Japanese
University
10. Thammasat University, Thailand South America
11. Universidad
Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
12. The University of Sćo Paulo, Brazil The
West
13. University of Aveiro, Portugal
14. University of Connecticut, USA
15. Durham University, England, United Kingdom
16. Jagiellonian University in
Krakow, Poland
17. Macquarie University, Australia
18. Sofia University St
Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria
19. Afterword
Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus of Education, Durham University, England.
Maria Stoicheva is Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Political Science, Department of European Studies, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria.
