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Zusman, Ami – Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Since 1990, new types of doctoral degrees--most in professions that never had doctorates before--surged into the higher education scene in the United States and elsewhere. In the United States, new "professional practice doctorates" were created in more than a dozen fields, and programs for these doctorates skyrocketed from near 0 in…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Professional Education, Comparative Analysis
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Granata, S. N.; Dochy, F. – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Activity theory is used to compare PhD undertaken at university, that is, academic PhD, with PhD performed in collaboration with industry, that is, semi-industrial PhD. The research is divided into a literature review and a case study. Semi-industrial and academic PhD are modelled as activity systems, and differences are highlighted in terms of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Engineering Education, School Business Relationship, Work Environment