In the past few decades, the internationalisation of higher education has become an increasingly popular trend across different parts of the globe. The fierce global competition and the aggravating unemployment rate, coupled with low teaching and research quality revealed by universities in mainland China, have inevitably compelled a growing…

The report presents patterns and trends in data on students and staff at UK higher education institutions covering a 10-year period that has seen a transition to new higher education funding systems across a large part of the UK. Patterns in income and expenditure of UK higher education institutions in 2015-16 are considered. For the first time…

This report provides an interim update to the Universities UK "Patterns" series, before the publication of the full "Patterns and Trends" publication in spring 2017. It includes updates of the main charts included in the 2015 publication, covering trends in student and staff numbers and finances of the UK higher education…

This paper presents a discussion and data concerning the career preferences of 2,842 graduate students enrolled in the arts and sciences in 1958. It was found that 38% of the students surveyed preferred research activities in their fields and 39% preferred to teach on an undergraduate or graduate level. Concerning the type of employer the students…

Summarizes results of the 1981 and 1982 Doctorate Employment Survey, which assesses the employment status of recent doctorate recipients in psychology. Reports that the employment market has stabilized, that unemployment remains low, and that the percentage of respondents who find academic employment has stopped declining. (KH)

This report examines sex discrimination in 15 departments in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Maryland. Of these departments, 9 had no women who were full professors, four had one with that rank, one department had two and one, three. All of these departments had admitted at least 24% women among their graduate students for…

This is a report of a large scale survey conducted to meet the need for up-to-date information on the sources, types, and amounts of support available to graduate students, on the effects of stipend holding on academic progress and patterns of employment, and on other aspects of graduate education. The report is based on a sample of graduate…

This report presents 4 tables that give a summary of all research doctorates earned during the period July 1, 1969 through June 30, 1970. Highlights of the findings are: (1) there were 14.4% more Ph.D.'s granted in fiscal year 1970 than the previous year; (2) 78.8% of all doctorate recipients planned to enter regular employment following…

To better prepare for the job market, graduate students of English should be selective in their choice of schools, broaden their teaching experience, offer service to the English department, and concentrate on professional development through publications and presented papers. (HOD)

A survey of students graduating from a social policy program was taken to determine students' work affiliations after graduation, and to compare their situations before and after graduation. The findings indicated differences in work affiliations and experiences, with a large percentage entering the social policy field. (Author/BH)

This paper presents ideas on ways to help graduate students in political science to become more marketable for nonacademic positions. It also includes background information on the changing employment market for Ph.D.'s. These ideas were discussed at a 1980 meeting of teachers, graduate students, and recent Ph.D.'s at MIT. The purpose of the…

The Oregon University System (OUS) awarded about 3,600 advanced degrees in the 1999-2000 academic year. This study examined the more immediate consequences of earning an advanced degree through a survey of degree recipients. The study used a random sampling procedure to meet 92.5% confidence intervals for the survey, which consisted of 1,063…

The authors present their analysis of trends discernable in doctoral programs in science education from 1966-1980 in 22 institutions with respect to enrollments, faculty, program features, and placement of graduates. (Authors/PB)

Refutes the claim that top-rated programs in library science tend to maintain and enhance their reputation by hiring their own and each other's graduates and that this pattern of inbreeding was likely to be harmful to the field. Concludes convincing evidence was not provided and the true situation may be other than claimed. (PEN)