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Doctoral education has been affected by structural and institutional transformations in recent decades, as a result of new demands and expectations regarding the role higher education should play in the knowledge society and economy. Whereas it is obvious that policy reforms and discourses, anchored in the knowledge economy, are the main drivers of the reshaping of doctoral education, it is less clear if this reconfiguration achieves the policy objectives and if this is aligned with doctoral candidates’ expectations. The book brings forward institutional and student perspectives in order to study this alignment, drawing on experiences from across the world and on specific national contexts. It presents the main topics discussed by each author to give the reader insight into the perspectives brought by individual chapters.
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Sin, C., Tavares, O. (2020). Introduction. In: Cardoso, S., Tavares, O., Sin, C., Carvalho, T. (eds) Structural and Institutional Transformations in Doctoral Education. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38046-5_1
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