Chris,
One of the key drivers of change in doctoral education is public ethics.
The public is the main payer of research training, and the public can
rightfully expect useful public returns from this funding.
This requires that knowledge is returned to the public domain quickly to
maximise its usefulness to society.
Sensibly, this requires short doctorates, publishing during the doctorate,
and doctorates by publication.
In contrast to what you are suggesting, it's a great change to now find the
real horse actually pulling the cart.
In earlier days, it was the other way round when a doctorate was part of
the privileged life of the elite, funded from the public purse for the
benefit of the individual concerned.
Terry
<snip> I believe that this increased fascination with getting RHD students
to publish whilst still engaged in their research is generated more out of a
knee jerk reaction by the institution to ensuring a stream of federal
research funding. This is further demonstrating by the increasing popularity
of Doctorates by Publication. The institution wants PHD students in design
completed within 3x years full stop, with the ongoing flow of funding that
comes along with it. It is not generated out of a genuine inquiry as to how
to construct a rigorous educational framework through which the doctoral
student's education itself is the key focus. At least this is my experience
in Australia. I am not denying that there are payoffs to RHD students
presenting papers, through the exposure of their work to broad public
debate, but this is rapidly becoming a therapeutic post-rationalism of what
good we can find in a bad situation. Surely the horse should be pulling the
cart, not the other way round?
Regards,
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