Skip to main content

Home/ Graduate Virtual Research Environment/ Group items tagged time

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
2More

'You don't want a smart Alec': selecting examiners to assess doctoral dissertations - S... - 0 views

www.informaworld.com/...tent~content=a916183280~db=all viva examiner external
shared by GVRE Manager on 28 Jun 10 - Cached
  • The use of external examiners in the doctoral assessment process is seen as a quality assurance process in most higher education systems. This article suggests that the selection of examiners is a critical aspect of that process. Interview analysis highlights the professional/academic considerations involved in selecting suitable examiners, as well as the somewhat more difficult to determine personality issues. Most of the findings lead to an appreciation that experienced supervisors see one of their roles in selecting examiners as protecting their doctoral students from the 'bad and mad', and looking for those examiners who have empathy and understanding, while at the same time maintaining high standards and integrity. A particular concern raised in the article is that of inexperienced supervisors selecting examiners, given the finding that most experienced supervisors ensure that they know, or at the very least know of, the personality traits of potential examiners.
  • GVRE Manager on 28 Jun 10
     
    The use of external examiners in the doctoral assessment process is seen as a quality assurance process in most higher education systems. This article suggests that the selection of examiners is a critical aspect of that process. Interview analysis highlights the professional/academic considerations involved in selecting suitable examiners, as well as the somewhat more difficult to determine personality issues. Most of the findings lead to an appreciation that experienced supervisors see one of their roles in selecting examiners as protecting their doctoral students from the 'bad and mad', and looking for those examiners who have empathy and understanding, while at the same time maintaining high standards and integrity. A particular concern raised in the article is that of inexperienced supervisors selecting examiners, given the finding that most experienced supervisors ensure that they know, or at the very least know of, the personality traits of potential examiners.
1More

Times Higher Education - Final stage of a long labour - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp phd experiences THE follows four PhD students
shared by GVRE Manager on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 20 May 09
     
    It's been a long haul for the four PhD students The Times Higher is following. Michael North finds them pondering their next career moves.
1More

Times Higher Education - Big life changes and mini milestones - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp phd experiences THE follows four PhD students
shared by GVRE Manager on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 20 May 09
     
    Two years into their research, Michael North finds out how academia is treating the four PhD students whose progress The Times Higher is charting
1More

Times Higher Education - 'My supervisor is great - but I can't get up in the morning' - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp phd experiences THE follows four PhD students
shared by GVRE Manager on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 20 May 09
     
    Six months in and some of our postgrads are finding the going tough. As experts gather for today's conference on 'Postgraduate Education', The Times Higher catches up with the students it is tracking over three years to see how they're coping
1More

Times Higher Education - Forced labour 2 - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp Issues funding phd
shared by GVRE Manager on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 20 May 09
     
    "Students in Britain put in fewer hours partly because many now have to work part time to stay at university ("Brits study less than continental cousins", 30 April). I have to work 16 hours to undertake a PhD."
1More

Employability and career progression for full-time, UK resident Masters students, Inter... - 0 views

www.prospects.ac.uk/...employability.pdf employability career
shared by GVRE Manager on 16 Jul 09 - No Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 16 Jul 09
     
    Employability and career progression for full-time, UK resident Masters students, Interim Report Helen Bowman, Helen Colley, Phil Hodkinson, Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Leeds
1More

Calling time on the long PhD - Postgraduate Study, Postgraduate - The Independent - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...me-on-the-long-phd-823190.html phd length time
shared by GVRE Manager on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 20 May 09
     
    Students used to get as long as they needed to complete their PhDs. But now universities are imposing submission targets. Is this the end for the next generation of original thinkers?
1More

Times Higher Education - Choosing a PhD subject - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp book review phd subject thesis
shared by GVRE Manager on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 20 May 09
     
    A well-chosen doctoral thesis will have a focus that can be explored in the appropriate time and built on in the future
1More

Final Phase: Employability and career progression for full-time UK-resident masters stu... - 0 views

www.hecsu.ac.uk/...research_notes_174.htm career
shared by GVRE Manager on 22 Jan 10 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 22 Jan 10
     
    Employability and career progression for full-time, UK resident Masters students, Interim Report Helen Bowman, Helen Colley, Phil Hodkinson, Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Leeds 2005 A copy of the report is available at: http://www.hecsu.ac.uk/hecsu.rd/documents/eguidance/employability.pdf
1More

ESRC Society Today - Homepage - General Public - 0 views

www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/...index.aspx fellowships
shared by GVRE Manager on 16 Jul 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 16 Jul 09
     
    ESRC Placement Fellows Scheme, go to >academic tab > funding opportunities - for social science researchers to spend time in an organisation (e.g. a government department) to undertake policy-relevant research and to upgrade the research skills of 'partner organisation' employees.
1More

PORT : tutorials - 0 views

port.igrs.sas.ac.uk/tutorials.htm PhD tutorial advice modern languages
shared by GVRE Manager on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 20 May 09
     
    Whist this website is aimed at PhD students in modern languages it contains some great tutorials that are relevant to any PhD student. Well worth spending some time working through.
1More

Europe Unit: Home - 0 views

www.europeunit.ac.uk/home career jobs postdoc
shared by GVRE Manager on 22 Jan 10 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 22 Jan 10
     
    information about European mobility programmes designed to encourage students and scholars to spend time in higher education institutions in countries other than their own.
1More

Times Higher Education - Take the heat out of trial by fire - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp viva What to expect expectations
shared by GVRE Manager on 29 Jun 10 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 29 Jun 10
     
    "Two of my students are within weeks of submitting their doctorates. It is tough to configure the right mix of compassionate support and needling motivation to ensure that the exhaustion, fear and worry are not incapacitating. All supervisors know that these final few weeks - to use estate-agent speak - will close the deal. If students suffer a metaphoric brain explosion and become so overwhelmed with stress that they cannot complete the necessary editing, a thesis that should have sailed through examination becomes mired in major corrections."
1More

Times Higher Education - Cash in the bank, eyes on the goal - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp phd experiences THE follows four PhD students
shared by GVRE Manager on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 20 May 09
     
    Jane Suter is unusually focused for a doctoral student. She has a very clear idea of her direction of research -which may take only two years -and a distinction in her MSc means that she is well funded.
1More

Times Higher Education - Nobel path to medical benefits - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp phd experiences THE follows four PhD students
shared by GVRE Manager on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 20 May 09
     
    It came as a bit of a shock to Lisa Willats when, two weeks after she started her PhD, the men who pioneered her area of research, magnetic-resonance imaging, were awarded a Nobel prize. "It put a spring in people's step," she says.
1More

Times Higher Education - Optimist looks to fruitful alliance - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp phd experiences THE follows four PhD students
shared by GVRE Manager on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 20 May 09
     
    Russian Alisa Chukanova has just arrived at Southampton University to start her PhD and is feeling hopeful about a future in UK academia: "I just came yesterday. My first impression is very good. If I like it, I would like to stay."
1More

Times Higher Education - Spirits rise as isolation ends - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp phd experiences THE follows four PhD students
shared by GVRE Manager on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 20 May 09
     
    "The third in our series tracking four PhD students sees how they are faring after their first year of study. Michael North and Chris Bunting report "
1More

Times Higher Education - More support makes the road to PhD less rocky - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp managing your institution phd thesis
shared by GVRE Manager on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 20 May 09
     
    "The PhD thesis was so awful that there seemed no alternative but to fail it. Susan Bassnett, professor of translation and comparative cultural studies at the University of Warwick, who was acting as an external examiner, rang up her contact at the university from which it came and shared her conclusions. "
1More

Times Higher Education - Why I... recommend greater openness for PhD vivas - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp phd viva
shared by GVRE Manager on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • GVRE Manager on 20 May 09
     
    "Ten years ago, the sociologist Peter Burnham wrote that the PhD viva is "one of the best-kept secrets in British higher education". A decade later, many academics and research students feel that the situation has not changed. When transparency is a buzzword in higher education, why is the PhD viva seen to be "shrouded in mystery"? Is mystery a problem? Are and should things be changing? "
1 - 20 of 29 Next ›
Showing 20▼ items per page