Didactics and Technology in Education

Si les jeunes docteurs bénéficient d’un bon taux d’insertion professionnelle, ils peinent en revanche à trouver des emplois pérennes, souligne l’Apec dans une étude publiée le 1er octobre 2014. (...) EducPros, par Morgane Taquet, 01/10/2014

A persistent theme in current discussions about graduate education and its outcomes is the question of whether Canada is “producing too many PhDs.” While enrollments (and numbers of PhD graduates) have increased with the encouragement of policy, more of these grads now struggle to find employment that matches the level and nature of their education – particularly employment in universities, as tenure-track faculty. The situation in Canada is not as dire as in the States where just this week it was reported that three quarters of faculty work as adjuncts, but accounts of under-employed PhDs working as waiters and cab drivers have become more common. (...) - The Global and Mail, by Melonie Fullick, Apr. 12, 2013

At the most recent conference of the Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), held last November, representatives from several academic presses and scholars who had recently published monographs based on their dissertations held a roundtable dedicated to giving current grad students tips on what they should prepare for if they intend on turning their dissertation into a book. (...) - Inside Higher Ed, by Benjamin Sawyer, GradHacker: a Blog from GradHacker and MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online, March 14, 2013

The preparation for the PhD Defense was just one step in the long road to the defense, that started with the first draft, then dealt extensively with the committee members, and ended with the celebration of getting my degree (I got the diploma in my hands right after my defense). (...) - PhD Talk, August 15, 2013

This post was written by Linda Murray who recently submitted her PhD on Maternal Mental Health in Central Vietnam through Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Her thesis was completed on nine desks, in four cities and two countries. She now lives in Hobart, Tasmania and works part-time at the University of Tasmania teaching Global Health. This post details how she broke the PhD ‘rules’ – and lived! (...) - The Thesis Whisperer, April 21, 2013