Postgraduate students as OER capacitators

Honours and Postgraduate Students

Contents Advice to Postgraduate Students

The University of Sydney’s school of chemistry is one of the largest chemistry departments in Australia with a strong record of achievement and an international research reputation. There are typically around 100 postgraduate students undertaking research towards doctorate and masters degrees. The school offers postgraduate programs in all areas of contemporary chemistry leading to the followin...

‘Students-as-partners’ scheme enhances postgraduate students’ employability skills while addressing gaps in bioinformatics education

Teaching bioinformatics is a longstanding challenge for educators who need to demonstrate to students how skills developed in the classroom may be applied to real world research. This study employed an action research methodology which utilised student-staff partnership and peer-learning. It was centred on the experiences of peer-facilitators, students who had previously taken a postgraduate bi...

Chinese Postgraduate Medical Students Researching for Publication

The value of including a research component in medical students’ training programs has been widely recognized. Nevertheless, examples of how this may be done are rarely found in the literature. The case study reported in this short paper aimed to address this gap in the literature by investigating how a group of postgraduate students attached to the Orthopedics Department of a major hospital in...

Expectations of postgraduate nursing students: an inquiry.

Postgraduate supervision in South Africa currently takes place in the context of university transformation with a notable increase in concern for quality. The latter is determined by the extent to which students' expectations within a supervisory practice are met. This study investigated students' expectations regarding their research supervision in a postgraduate nursing programme. A 48-item q...