1st Edition

Quality in Postgraduate Education

Edited By Yoni Ryan, Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt Copyright 1994
190 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This text is designed to respond to the uppermost area of concern in postgraduate education today - that of achieving quality. The book discusses issues of quality and research culture, including criteria for evaluating theses and research applications, and women and overseas students.

Part 1 Issues of quality and institutional research culture: planning for quality in graduate studies; from thesis writing to research application - learning the research culture; staff development for research; a model for the management of research degree supervision in a post-1987 university; gender and postgraduate supervision; quality in supervisory overseas students?. Part 2 Educational processes to achieve quality: improving the quality of postgraduate supervision through residential staff development programmes; the big picture about managing writing; supervising the writing of a thesis; the postgraduate's journey - an interplay of roles; avoiding communication breakdown; supervising literature reviews; contracts and checklists - practical propositions for postgraduate supervision; guidelines for discussion - a tool for managing postgraduate supervision.

Biography

Yoni Ryan, Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt