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Tamrat, Wondwosen; Fetene, Getnet Tizazu – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
This study explores doctoral students' views about the support schemes and resources deployed to run PhD programs at one public university in Ethiopia. The research used questionnaire, interview and documentary evidence as principal data collection tools and involved 164 doctoral students at four purposely selected colleges of the university. The…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes, Writing for Publication
Pearson, Margot; Evans, Terry; Macauley, Peter – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
Exploring the nexus between doctoral education and research, and developments in how research is organised and funded is of significance as doctoral education is both part of the higher education system for teaching and learning, and part of the research enterprise. Doctoral candidates are both students and effectively early career researchers.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Research Methodology, Delivery Systems
Abdul-Alim, Jamaal – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
This article features the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program at the University of Memphis. The McNair program is named after Ronald E. McNair, the second African-American in space, who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986. Approximately 200 campuses across the nation host the program. Whereas the program…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Financial Support
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Hebert, Marilynne; Lau, Francis – Journal of Distance Education, 2010
Eight Canadian universities partnered to establish a Collaborative Health Informatics PhD/Postdoc Strategic Training Program (CHPSTP). The 6-year goal was to increase research capacity in health informatics in Canada. Three cohorts of 20 trainees participated in the training, which included online Research Learning Experiences, annual face-to-face…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Health, Information Science Education, Educational Cooperation
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Harris, Kathleen – Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1984
Published research on institutional characteristics associated with external research funding are reviewed. Principal points of agreement are that funding levels are related to previous funding levels; publications are related to funding; and funding is related to the existence of doctoral programs. No evidence of bias in federal funding was…
Descriptors: Bias, Doctoral Programs, Federal Aid, Financial Support
Anderson, B. Harold – 1986
The purpose of the study reported in this document was to describe the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the vocational teacher education programs among institutions that are members of the University Council for Vocational Education. A questionnaire was mailed to representatives of each member institution in October 1985, with a 100…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Doctoral Programs, Enrollment Trends, Financial Support