...Prof. Barry O'Mahoney; Marina Brinkman-Staneva Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight some inadequacies of the position of lecturers’ qualifications to design assessments within hospitality curricula while meeting the requirements of international and national quality frameworks.The...

.../methodology/approach A literature review and content analysis of National Qualifications Frameworks was conducted to analyse how learning levels differ within and between degrees and diplomas with specific application to the Bachelor of Applied Business Studies degree and the New Zealand Diploma of Business...

... Assessment Qualifications Standards Law schools United States of America The data for this study were taken from The Official Guide to U.S. Law Schools (LSAC, 1993, 1994, 1998), a publication of the American Bar Association (ABA) for the years 1992 and 1997. In addition to listing all...

... for the student’s thesis and the viva represents a new purpose for the discussion of the student’s work and writing. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Supervisors Rhetoric Qualifications Education Analysis This paper draws on viva preparation workshops conducted with postgraduate students...

... of clear direction in the recent joint funding councils’ report. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Qualifications Diversity Research methods Universities National curriculum United Kingdom The current collection of papers has its origins in the first academic symposium that the UK Council...

... Limited 2003 Research Assessment Training techniques Training Qualifications Qualitative techniques This paper considers specific issues related to research degree examining, namely: use of examiners’ preliminary reports by candidates and supervisors; scope of criteria used...

... science subjects, there are substantial differences and variations at the level of detail: differences in entry qualifications deemed acceptable; variation in how much responsibility is taken by supervisors and for what aspects; levels and depth of research training provision and modes of delivery, and so...

... for Postgraduate Research Programmes in 1999, which lists a series of precepts identifying key matters in quality assurance (QAAHE, 1999). The Quality Assurance Agency has since put into effect its promise to develop national qualifications frameworks for postgraduate qualifications. However, the complexities...

.... But in this instance the game is fixed. Hilda knows she has won before the contest begins. Metaphors Social responsibility Research Students Academic staff Qualifications They said, “This is a valuable contribution to knowledge” … It felt ludicrous. I came away and I still hadn’t discussed my thesis...

...” examination. Issues addressed include: the composition of PhD examining panels and the roles of individual examiners; the training and qualification of examiners; the purpose and nature of the oral examination; the tension between examination of the process of training and that of the “finished product...

... Quality assurance Qualifications Publishing The introduction in the mid‐1960s of the published work route to a British PhD was a major, if somewhat controversial, innovation. The route allows the submission of a doctoral thesis based exclusively or largely on published work and is in contrast...

... all students to go on and become great scientists, but things do not always work out that way! (PhD supervisor). Qualifications Research Training Students Supervisors In addition, the Trust has conducted a series of reviews of its provision of PhD research training (The Wellcome Trust...

... of PhD in Art and Design. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Qualifications Research Art Design In the UK there has been considerable debate in the sector of art and design about the nature of research and how this relates to the PhD. In recent times, this debate has been conducted...

...D. Howard; Malcolm Shaw; Stephen Hoddell; Deborah Street; Helena Wildblood Since the 1980s, the traditional research‐based route to a PhD and the PhD by publication have been joined by practice‐based doctorates, professional doctorates and recently by the new route PhD. The National Qualifications...

...; questionnaire data from PhD candidates, examiners and supervisors; and interview data with candidates before and after their PhD vivas. Qualifications Research Students We argue that there are three key components of the viva and that two of these components provide extensive...

...D. Howard; Malcolm Shaw; Malcolm Shaw; D. Howard Green The Quality Assurance Agency’s (QAA) qualifications framework has resulted in hives of benchmarking activity in 42 subject areas focussed on defining acceptable standards of performance exclusively for first degree awards. There appears...

.... Finally the paper reflects on the role that the MRes might play in the further development of research training in doctoral programmes in the UK. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Qualifications Research Training Higher education The 1993 White Paper Realising Our Potential formalised...

...‐based programme specification for each subject within the degree programme covering all four Levels in the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework. It describes the structure of a multidisciplinary programme specification and considers the issues it will raise. © MCB UP Limited 2000...

... of a complete and overarching framework of qualifications for the UK; the development of a national template for individual programme specifications; the development of benchmarking information and threshold standards across 41 subject areas; the development of institutional codes of practice and institutional...

... developed. Ethics Higher education Qualifications United Kingdom Universities Validation This paper seeks to illuminate the current culture of the process of validation of professional degrees[ 1 ] within British higher education (HE). The focus is on the micropolitical activity which...