Catégorie: Doctorat

Doctoring the Doctorate

By Colleen Flaherty . Hoping to help Ph.D.s secure jobs and challenge old notions about academe, Stanford University will encourage and pay for humanities graduate students to pursue careers as high school teachers, starting next year. The plan consists of a new course offering that...

International doctoral students face a tough job market

B y   Erin Millar . Although Canada has more than doubled the number of international PhD candidates studying here in the past five years, highly educated immigrants face worse job prospects than their Canadian-born ...

Foreign doctoral students may be in transit

By Paul Rigg . In a commentary last month, Philip Altbach wrote that the rich were stealing the brains of developing countries. In the case of Spain where doctorate production has grown exponentially, however, the evidence regarding the destination of foreign doctoral students...

Reforms aim to attract more foreign PhD students

B y   Jane Marshall . One of the first acts of the socialist-led government when it came to power a year ago was to repeal an order by its predecessors that had tightened up residence and employment rules for...

The future of international doctoral mobility

B y Rahul Choudaha . In ”The Disposable Academic” , The Economist argued that "doing a PhD” was often a waste of time. However, this pessimism does not reflect the experience of all students, as evidenced by...

Balancing excellence and access in doctoral education

B y   Thomas Jørgensen . A diverse, worldwide research system has many benefits but it must not result in work being concentrated in a few global hubs. A more globalised and...

Sharp rise in foreign PhD enrolments in Scandinavia

B y   Jan Petter Myklebust . Almost 17,000 foreign students are studying for PhDs in the five Nordic countries. These students comprise a significant proportion of the more than 70,000...

Both benefit when Mexicans with PhDs migrate to the US

B y   Adolfo Albo and Juan Luis Ordaz Díaz . Migration from Mexico to the United States has been a historical process that has brought benefits to both...

Brain gain counters brain drain in attracting PhDs

B y   Alya Mishra . India’s new science policy aims to position the nation among the top five global scientific powers by 2020. This cannot be achieved without...

A PhD does pay off – at 40

By Simona Chiose. If your odds of finding a job in the field in which you studied are about 50 per cent would you still go into that field? That’s the situation of many PhD students in Canada who know, from watching graduating peers compete for tenure-track or...

Debt, Race and Ph.D.s

By Scott Jaschik . Colleges and universities -- not to mention many businesses -- have been pushing for gains in the numbers of black and Latino students who earn doctorates, especially in STEM or social science fields. A new study may point to one hindrance...

Three universities pilot doctoral supervision course

B y Ishmael Tongai . An innovative course that aims to produce a new generation of doctoral supervisors kicked off this year at three South African universities. The plan is to roll out the free course to other universities to raise the country’s PhD...

Promoting doctoral education in Europe

Aware that Europe is the top destination for international students world-wide, offering (amongst other educational opportunities) top-quality doctoral programmes, ACA members Campus France (project coordinator), DAAD, Nuffic, the British Council, and the Institute of International...

Qui veut la peau des docteurs? Voyage au bout de la jungle des chasseurs de têtes!

Blog Educpros de Sebastien Poulain, Evelyne Jardin et Fanny Lalleman . Les doctorants et docteurs sont-ils susceptibles de trouver des  emplois dans le secteur privé?  Nous savons que oui. Peuvent-ils passer  par des cabinets de...

ABC’s and PhD’s: Comics

By Dana Campbell . I opened my email account yesterday to find a note from my library: 25 items I had requested were being held for me at our local branch (?!?)  I thought it was a mistake until I realized that the notice was actually regarding my younger daughter’s library...

PhD numbers have doubled but few graduates will find teaching jobs, Ontario study finds

By Simona Chiose. Ontario’s universities are not adequately preparing doctoral students for the reality that few of them will find jobs as professors, a new study has found. Over the last decade, the number of students enrolled in PhD-level programs has doubled even...

Entreprises - découvrir les CIFRE

Les rdv "découverte" CIFRE - spécial entreprise Découvrez les dispositifs CIFRE en 15 mn par téléphone et posez toutes vos questions les jeudis après-midi de 14h00 à 17h00. Soucieuse d'être au plus proche des entreprises...

L’UPMC inaugure un programme doctoral pan-européen sur l’innovation et l’entrepreunariat

Jean Chambaz vient d'inaugurer la création du programme doctoral de la Communauté de la Connaissance et de l’Innovation (ou Knowledge and Innovation Community: KIC) dans le domaine des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC). Ce programme doctoral...

Demystifying and Preparing for the Doctoral Viva

Demystifying and Preparing for the Doctoral Viva Tuesday 11 June 2013 11.00 – 4.00 Professor Pam Denicolo, University of  Surrey Dr Dawn Duke, University of  Surrey The purpose of this workshop is to examine the doctoral viva process and experience in order to help...

How PhD students use social media to help their research development

In this guest entry, Yimei Zhu discusses the scholarly use of social media by PhD researchers through a mix-methods study in the UK. Yimei Zhu is a 3rd year Sociology PhD student in University of Manchester. Her research looks at the new forms of scholarly communication and...

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