By Brendan O’Malley and Cayley Dobie, University World News
Higher education institutions must develop a critical mass and diversity of research to offer high-quality doctoral education. University structures dedicated to doctoral education should be developing ways that strengthen the research environment rather than simply creating more taught courses for doctoral candidates, the European Association of Universities (EUA) has warned this week (42).
Internationalisation should be used as a tool to enhance the quality of doctoral education and develop institutional research capacity, the EUA also urged. This can be achieved through collaborative doctoral programmes, international joint doctoral programmes, or joint integrated curricula, joint committees and juries and joint degrees, but mobility should be an integrated part of the candidate’s research project.
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Povl Tiedemann
November 2010