- Title
- A snapshot of Australian professional doctorates
- Creator
- Ellis, Allan; Anderson, Alan
- Relation
- Professional Doctorate Research in Australia: Commentary and Case Studies from Business, Education and Indigenous Studies p. 7-14
- Relation
- http://dps.scu.edu.au/index.php/33
- Publisher
- Southern Cross University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Professional doctorates were introduced into Austraha in 1990 and Neumann and Goldstein state that they '... reflected not only the expansion of study at doctoral level study, but also the diversification of disciplines and modes of research.' During the first decade offerings increased from one in 1990 to 48 in 1996 and to 105 in the year 2000. This paper reports a 2007-2008 survey of secondary data available on Australian university internet sites that show that this expansion and diversification has continued with a total of 227 professional doctorates now on offer. It also reveals that an increased number of tagged Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programs compete to provide industry-focused doctoral training. An examination of elements of marketing effectiveness was part of the survey and it was found that access to information about many individual programs was often difficult and the information incomplete and often dated. Sadly if ratings were to be awarded for marketing of professional doctorate programs very few high rankings would be handed out. There is considerable potential for improvement. Given how individual awards are scattered across various departments, schools and faculties there is very little evidence of co-ordinating processes or organisation.
- Subject
- professional doctorates; Australia; university education; academic degrees
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918099
- Identifier
- uon:8510
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781875855704
- Language
- eng
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