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Direct linkMcKenna, Sioux; Quinn, Lynn; Vorster, Jo-Anne – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
The PhD is the highest formal qualification and signifies a scholar's rite of passage as a legitimate contributor of new knowledge in a field. Examiner reports make claims about what is legitimate in a thesis and what is not and thus articulate the organising principles through which participation in a field is measured. The authors analysed 39…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Doctoral Dissertations, Examiners, Foreign Countries
