Over the past two decades, there has been a flurry of government papers and policy reports worldwide calling for increased number and diversity of doctoral researchers and a broadening of the curriculum to meet the developing needs of respective national 'knowledge-driven' economies. This has been followed by position papers and best practice examples of employability skills development in boun...

We propose a partial solution to the problem of the relevance of IS research by adjusting doctoral programs to the specific needs and talents of doctoral students, who are distinguished from traditional doctoral candidates by significant prior professional life experiences. The purpose of this paper is first to clarify the concept of "professionally qualified doctoral students" (PQDS). Next we ...

Purpose Practitioners of acupuncture and Asian medicine have begun to engage in doctoral education, however the impact of doctoral level education on this medicinal discipline is yet to be fully evaluated. This research examines three graduated cohorts and assesses the impact of doctoral education on clinical practice, employment, integrated health care settings and professionalism. This resear...

Doctoral student attrition is a troubling and costly phenomenon. Alarmingly, 40-60% of doctoral students will not complete their Ph.D. Several explanations for this high and persistent attrition rate have been discussed in the extant literature, including questioning the quality, mental health, and motivation of doctoral students. However, stricter admission standards and empirical evidence pro...

Current indications (U.S. Department of Education, 2003; Zandberg & Lewis, 2008; Picciano & Seaman, 2009) are that distance learning, in particular online learning, will continue to expand into the foreseeable future. There are some completely online doctoral programs presently operating, but many students continue to flock to the non-traditional executive type leadership cohort-based, on-groun...

This paper provides a description of the relative success of non-doctoral programs at securing accounting faculty of choice. Using the logic that faculty from more prestigious doctoral programs possess more choice in the jobs they take, this paper accumulates the result of these decisions. Focusing on the non-doctoral sector, this paper provides a measure of how successful schools have been at ...

The purpose of this study was to find the impact project-based learning using vlogs in improving vocabulary skills Early Childhood Education (PAUD) students. Participants were 60 Sampling done randomly. method used is a one-group experiment. This provides treatment for group experiments pre-test and post-test. research instrument has been tested content validity by three supervisors with doctor...