Cover 1
Title Page, Copyright 2
Contents 4
List of figures and tables 5
Preface 8
About the authors 12
List of frequently used acronyms 13
Chapter 1 - The demand for a doctorate:Global, African and South African contexts 14
Chapter 2 - The demand to increase doctorates 40
Chapter 3 - The demand for improved efficiency 72
Chapter 4 - The demand for transformation 94
Chapter 5 - Improve the quality of doctoraleducation 114
Chapter 6 - Multiple paths to success 138
Chapter 7 - Incremental change and a paradigm shift 186
Chapter 8 - Policy choices and implications 208
Appendix 1 - Data sources and methodology 228
Appendix 2 - Responses to the presentation of preliminary findings from the Study on the Doctorate in South Africa (May 2014) 238
Appendix 3 - Current trends in PhD studies: A review of articles published on the University World News website (2013) 259
Appendix 4 - Government steering ofdoctoral production 274
Appendix 5 - Additional data on the doctorate in South Africa 278
Appendix 6 - Scenarios that will produce doctoral graduates by 2030 283
References 285
Back Cover 298
Publisher:African Books Collective,Published:2015,ISBN:9781928331070,Related ISBN:9781928331001,Language:English,OCLC:937354639
Worldwide, in Africa and in South Africa, the importance of the doctorate has increased disproportionately in relation to its share of the overall graduate output over the past decade. This heightened attention has not only been concerned with the traditional role of the PhD, namely the provision of future academics; rather, it has focused on the increasingly important role that higher education � and, particularly, high-level skills � is perceived to play in national development and the knowledge economy. This book is unique in the area of research into doctoral studies because it draws on a large number of studies conducted by the Centre of Higher Education Trust (CHET) and the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), as well as on studies from the rest of Africa and the world. In addition to the historical studies, new quantitative and qualitative research was undertaken to produce the evidence base for the analyses presented in the book. The findings presented in Doctoral Education in South Africa pose anew at least six tough policy questions that the country has struggled with since 1994, and continues to struggle with, if it wishes to gear up the system to meet the target of 5 000 new doctorates a year by 2030. Discourses framed around the single imperatives of growth, efficiency, transformation or quality will not, however, generate the kind of policy discourses required to resolve these tough policy questions effectively. What is needed is a change in approach that accommodates multiple imperatives and allows for these to be addressed simultaneously.

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Nico Cloete, Johann Mouton and Charles Sheppard

Project MUSE (https://muse.jhu.edu/)

Cloete, Nico; Mouton, Johann

Project Muse, African Minds

Compress

Baltimore, Maryland, Cape Town, South Africa, 2016

African Books Collective, Cape Town, 2015

Somerset West, South Africa, 2015

Cape Town, South Africa, 2015

South Africa, South Africa

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-283).

2022-03-08