One of the core functions universities world over is generation new knowledge through research and innovations. African have been facing mammoth challenges, especially on their role in research. This partly due to weak internal capacities for low numbers staff with PhDs, which also crucial growth self-renewal. article analyses state doctoral training Africa some insights into its implications g...

*Joanna N. Lahey is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the National Bureau of Economic Research. The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College gratefully acknowledges The Atlantic Philanthropies for support of this brief. The brief summarizes previous research by the author, who received support from the National Science Foundation (Doctoral Dissertation Grant # 238 7480) and the Natio...

This descriptive study aimed to characterize the graduates of the Inter-unit Doctoral Program in Nursing of the School of Nursing of the University of São Paulo, who defended their theses in the period 1998-2008, in relation to the location they developed their Masters and their pre and post-doctoral employment, also to investigate the theses defended in relation to the thematic areas and metho...

Here we describe and evaluate the success of a multi-institutional Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), which was established to address UK skills shortage in Soil Science. The government-funded ‘STARS’ (Soils And Research Studentships) CDT 2015 across range universities research institutes UK. It recruited 41 PhD students equitably split institutions under four core themes identified as being c...

BACKGROUND The European Union (EU) supports North-South Partnerships and collaborative research projects through its Framework Programmes and Horizon 2020. There is limited research on how such projects can be harnessed to provide a structured platform for doctoral level studies as a way of strengthening health system research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). OBJECTIVE The aim of this st...

As the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) leads in designing and implementing the new Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship program, we congratulate Sim et al for their thoughtful contribution to the nascent literature on embedded research, and for advancing our own learning about the HSI Fellowship experience. In our commentary, we describe the HSI Fellowship and its key components,...

entrepreneurship education is one of the most important informal training programs that are conducted in most training centers. the aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between need for cognition, training self-efficacy, and learning training motivation with training transfer. the method of research is correlational and 164 trainees of entrepreneurship center of university of...

This project evaluates the impact of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) policy to promote education in the responsible conduct of research (RCR). To determine whether this policy resulted in meaningful RCR educational experiences, our study examined the instructional plans developed by individual universities in response to the mandate. Using a sample of 108 U.S. institutions classified as...