What kind of information skills are your referring to?

Dear Fatimah:

Thank you very much for your question

Information skills in:

• Documentary research

• Working with Databases

• Working with sites for the diffusion and interaction of scientific results

• Working with international rankings of universities like Scimago.

Thanks Rolando.

PhD candidates in our faculty are allowed to audit / enter Master students lectures on Research Methodologies. There are three modules: Intro to Research Methods; Quantitative Methodology; and Qualitative Methodology. These lectures are usually conducted in second semester.

Workshops are also available for us such as SPSS, or theoretical framework. Or we could participate in other local institutions' workshops to form such information skills. And I guess RG is a good platform to learn more stuff from experts.

However, we are not familiar with the international rankings stated.

Hope that gives some guides ;).

Rolando:

It is mandatory for all our graduate students to undergo a course on Research Methods which broadly covers various forms of knowledge that is required. A broad list of contents is:

Basics of research, Finding problem, Literature search methods, Literature review options, Ethics in research, types of research methods, Quantitative and Qualitative methods, Tools to be used for research, Statistics, Proposal writing, Thesis/dissertation writing, Proposal and Thesis presentation methods.

Each component of the course incorporates sufficient practice exercises to make sure that the students are able to understand and practice. For example in the case of Literature search methods the students are taken to our Central Library and practically shown the methods to make them practice for their research problem.

In addition to that special workshops are conducted throughout the year dealing with the aspects that are relevant to the students such as Statistics, Ethics, Industrial Review Board, Human participants, etc.

If you so desire I can share further details of the course that I teach.

Dear Fatimah and Nageswara, thank you very much for the important contributions!!.