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This chapter highlights the increasing importance of doctoral education and discusses how the changing social and political environments have impacted doctoral education across different systems. Three different broadly defined models of doctoral education—European systems, US systems, and East Asian systems—are described, and the ways in which these approaches are shifting in the context of knowledge society discourses are discussed. Based on the changing nature of doctoral education in the knowledge society, this chapter introduces the core themes that run through many of the chapters in this book: the growth of doctoral education programs across countries, demographic changes (increasing participation of female and foreign doctoral students), quality control, diversified career paths of doctoral students, funding for doctoral education, and their job prospects.
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Shin, J.C., Kehm, B.M., Jones, G.A. (2018). The Increasing Importance, Growth, and Evolution of Doctoral Education. In: Shin, J., Kehm, B., Jones, G. (eds) Doctoral Education for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge Studies in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89713-4_1
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