Toward a Global PhD?

Universities and nations have long recognized the direct contribution of graduate education to the welfare of the economy by meeting a range of research and employment needs. With the burgeoning of a global economy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the economic outcome of doctoral education reaches far beyond national borders. Many doctoral programs in the United States and throughout the world are looking for opportunities to equip students to work in transnational settings, with scientists and researchers located across the globe. Nations competing within this global economy often have different and not always compatible motives for supporting graduate training. In this volume, graduate education experts explore some of the tensions and potential for cooperation between nations in the realm of doctoral education.

The contributors assess graduate education in different systems around the world, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, the Nordic countries, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Many factors motivate the need for a global understanding of doctoral education, including the internationalization of the labor market and global competition, the expansion of opportunities for doctoral education in smaller and developing nations, and a declining interest among international students in pursuing their graduate education in the United States.

Vorwort
Explores the tensions and potential for cooperation between nations in the realm of doctoral education.

Autorentext
Maresi Nerad is director of the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) and associate dean of research in the Graduate School, University of Washington. Mimi Heggelund is the international coordinator of CIRGE.

Inhalt
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Maresi Nerad, Thomas Trzyna, and Mimi HeggelundPart One | Doctoral Education in Europe1. Germany / Barbara M. Kehm2. United Kingdom / Howard Green3. Nordic Countries / Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson4. The European University Institute / Andreas C. Frijdal5. The Bologna Process / Jeroen Bartelse and Jeroen HuismanPart Two | Doctoral Education in Africa, South America, and Mexico6. South Africa / Ahmed Bawa7. Brazil / Renato Janine Ribeiro8. Mexico / Armando Alcantara, Salvador Malo, and Mauricio FortesPart Three | Doctoral Education in Australasia9. Australia / Terry Evans, Barbara Evans, and Helen Marsh10. Japan / Shinichi Yamamoto11. India / Narayana JayaramIV. Doctoral Education in North America12. Canada / Garth Williams, with the collaboration of Martha Crago, Jonathan C. Driver, Louis Maheu, and Marc Renaud13. United States of America / Maresi NeradConclusion / Maresi Nerad and Thomas TrzynaAppendix A: Past Differences, Current Commonalities, and Future Trends in Doctoral Education in Selected CountriesAppendix B: Seattle Declaration, September 2005ContributorsIndex