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I think the question of quality standards of a doctoral degree research is very crucial and must be full addressed at institutional or university, national, regional, and international levels.I suggest that when we talk about the quality and standard of a doctoral degree research, training, or outputs, we need to focus on the policies, process, ethics, funding, and visibility of the academic department or directorate responsible for the performance of the doctoral degree inputs, process, outputs, and outcomes as well as the impacts.
In most cases, the quality or standards begin with the selection of the applicant for the doctoral programme based on merit. The other quality factor is the selection of the supervisors of the doctoral candidate, Another factor is the policy implementation as well as the study environment or facilities available for the doctoral candidate.
A candidate should be open with his/her personal or family problems that might need professional or institutional management support.The issue of quality is attributed to the merits or efforts of the doctoral students, supervisor, policy environment, and available materials, facility for research and training of the candidate.With respect to the doctoral candidate,
The doctoral candidate may have personal or family problems which should also be addressed by a good supervisor or management. I think, the quality and standard can be improved if the doctoral student is self-drive, well focused, motivated or facilitated, assertive, forward looking, and ethical as well as professional in his/her study objective sand strategies.These are enhanced by effective institutional policy implementation for compliance by all the stakeholders.
In this case, the doctoral student should not try to lean on the supervisor on almost every idea, should not seek favour from the supervisor or offer financial,travels/tickets, or material or sexual favour, should not be imposing or intimidate a supervisor or be too political so as to intimidate the supervisor.
The student should strive to be competent, available, improve communication or contacts and be responsive to supervision guidelines. S/he should have a study and follow it with the approval of the supervisor and avoid rumour mongering against his/her supervisor.
A doctorate student can enhance his/her quality standard by participating in academic or scholarly growth activities like writing abstracts, participating in conferences, publishing preliminary aspects of his/her research proposals or presenting it at conferences as a being a co-paper presenter with his or her external mentor.
The doctoral student will do better if s/he can get a competent mentor in addition to the official supervisor allocated or appointed by the university, among others.
One of the biggest challenge of doctoral degree quality issue, has to do with the role of a supervisor.
A good supervisor guarantees quality doctoral research training and outputs process. This means, a good supervisor or mentor helps to promote a doctoral research student in many aspects. At the same time, a good supervisor is the one who is academically or professionally or practically qualified to supervisor the specific doctoral student in question.
This means, s/he will share his/her experience or skills or expertise with the students. In addition, and moire importantly, a perfect supervisor that brings quality to doctoral student or supervise, is a person who is ethical, legally, and morally sound, in my opinion.
There are cases of supervisors who have been reportedly accused of perpetuating gender based sexual violence against female students under their supervision, others for offering or demanding sexual favours to pass the candidates, or failing women or female doctoral candidates who have shunned their sexual advances, in some universities, as per multiple reports.
In this respect, this quality means that, the supervisor will be competent, not gender bias, seeking or offering or demanding from the doctoral student any material, political, or sexual favours purposely for examinations questions or marks.All these will undermine the quality or standards of any doctoral degree output.
Although doctoral degree quality standards are set by institutions, institutions are part of the national regional, sub regional, or international standards for global competitiveness. That is now why universities are rankled nationally sub regionally, regionally, and internationally.These have to with standards or productivity of university.
Best regards
Wilson
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