Zeitschrift für Hochschuldidaktik Nr. 2/1994
International Perspectives in Postgraduate Education and Training
Robert Burgess | Michael Schratz
Editorial Introduction
Issues concerned with postgraduate education and training are now high on the agenda worldwide. In these circumstances, it seemed appropriate to us to devote a special issue of this journal to some of the current issues and debates to which social and educational researchers can comment on from a number of different vantage points: as policy-makers, as practitioners and as social investigators. The papers draw on material from a range of countries and higher educational systems: Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. While doctoral studies and postgraduate education and training is a twentieth century phenomena across these countries, it is very recent in Austria and Italy and has only been the subject of considerable debate in the last ten years in the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, there are a series of common themes that demand attention:- The role of education v training
- Academic v vocational purposes of postgraduate education
- Organisational structures; especially graduate schools
- Selection of students
- Supervisory practice
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Time to degree
- Submission and completion rates
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