Dear All,
Typing too fast, I see that I missed a couple key words in my last post. One is essential — in the next paragraph, I should have typed the word PROPOSAL.
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North American PhD programs typically require a sequence of depth and breadth courses, along with methods and methodology courses before the comprehensive examinations that advance the PhD student to formal candidacy. Only then does the PhD student complete, present, and gain approval for the thesis PROPOSAL. In Australia and in some Bologna nations, students for the 3-year PhD write a proposal as a condition of acceptance into the program. In many places, they get none of the methods training they need, and in others, no skills training. In essence, PhD students in many 3-year programs are expected to do research with no foundation in research skills or methods. What’s worse is that the supervisors in these programs lack the experience to guide them. They often graduated from similar programs. Many seem to have earned a PhD at the same university where they teach, which means both a lack of skills and methods and a research monoculture. As a result, these supervisors have no idea of the literature and reading they should be giving their PhD students to move them forward, they have no exposure to other ways of thinking and working, and they have no experience outside the one university where they work.
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Apologies for this omission.
Yours,
Ken
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