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Quality in postgraduate education / edited by Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt and Yoni Ryan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Kogan Page, 1994Description: xii, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0749414138
  • 9780749414139
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.155
LOC classification:
  • LB2371 .Q35 1994
Contents:
Notes on Contributors -- List of Acronyms -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Planning for Quality in Graduate Studies -- Ch. 2. From Thesis Writing to Research Application: Learning the Research Culture -- Ch. 3. Staff Development in Relation to Research -- Ch. 4. A Model for the Management of Research Degree Supervision in a Post-1987 University -- Ch. 5. Gender and Postgraduate Supervision -- Ch. 6. Quality in Supervising Overseas Students? -- Ch. 7. Improving the Quality of Postgraduate Supervision through Residential Staff Development Programmes -- Ch. 8. The 'Big Picture' about Managing Writing -- Ch. 9. Supervising the Writing of a Thesis -- Ch. 10. The Postgraduate's Journey - An Interplay of Roles -- Ch. 11. Avoiding Communication Breakdown -- Ch. 12. Supervising Literature Reviews -- Ch. 13. Contracts and Checklists: Practical Propositions for Postgraduate Supervision -- Ch. 14. 'Guidelines for Discussion': A Tool for Managing Postgraduate Supervision, with an Afterword by John Jones.
Summary: "This text is designed to respond to the uppermost area of concern in postgraduate education today - that of achieving quality. The book discusses issues of quality and research culture, including criteria for evaluating theses and research applications, and women and overseas students."--Publisher description.
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Notes on Contributors -- List of Acronyms -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Planning for Quality in Graduate Studies -- Ch. 2. From Thesis Writing to Research Application: Learning the Research Culture -- Ch. 3. Staff Development in Relation to Research -- Ch. 4. A Model for the Management of Research Degree Supervision in a Post-1987 University -- Ch. 5. Gender and Postgraduate Supervision -- Ch. 6. Quality in Supervising Overseas Students? -- Ch. 7. Improving the Quality of Postgraduate Supervision through Residential Staff Development Programmes -- Ch. 8. The 'Big Picture' about Managing Writing -- Ch. 9. Supervising the Writing of a Thesis -- Ch. 10. The Postgraduate's Journey - An Interplay of Roles -- Ch. 11. Avoiding Communication Breakdown -- Ch. 12. Supervising Literature Reviews -- Ch. 13. Contracts and Checklists: Practical Propositions for Postgraduate Supervision -- Ch. 14. 'Guidelines for Discussion': A Tool for Managing Postgraduate Supervision, with an Afterword by John Jones.

"This text is designed to respond to the uppermost area of concern in postgraduate education today - that of achieving quality. The book discusses issues of quality and research culture, including criteria for evaluating theses and research applications, and women and overseas students."--Publisher description.

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