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Doctoral Education Must Match the Nation's Needs and the Realities of the Marketplace.
Atwell, Robert H. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1996
While research universities house many distinguished scholars and serve an important role, there is a significant mismatch between the doctoral students they produce and the kinds of jobs available for new faculty, for which the students are presumably being groomed. Over-reliance on the research model of doctoral education inhibits the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Doctoral Programs, Education Work Relationship
The View from the Professional Schools: Nursing.
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Krauss, Judith B. – Journal of Dental Education, 1987
Trends in nursing toward professionalization and specialization are examined along with the implications of the general economic climate, national politics, and changing health care delivery for change in nursing education. (MSE)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Economic Change, Educational Change, Educational Demand
Doctoral Education: The Short-Term Crisis vs. Long-Term Challenge.
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Geiger, Roger – Review of Higher Education, 1997
Discussion of doctoral education looks at current trends in demand and supply; previous patterns in the nationality of doctoral degree recipients (1985-94); expansion and contraction in master's and doctoral degrees awarded, by discipline group (1976-93); and structural features of doctoral education (competition, departmental control, student…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Competition, Costs, Degrees (Academic)