Closer to home... ? Experiences of candidates on a doctoral education programme in two Sub-Saharan countries: South Africa and Ethiopia

This paper qualitatively explores PhD candidates' experiences in two Sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia and South Africa. While the countries are self-evidently very different, their respective drives to graduate PhDs create a strong point of commonality, prompting the programmed initiativ...

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Published in:Cogent education 2019, Vol.6 (1)
Main Author: Williamson, Charmaine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to Computers
Access to Information
Capacity Building
development cooperation
Disproportionate Representation
Doctoral Programs
Doctoral Students
Educational research
Ethiopia
Females
Foreign Countries
Graduate studies
Higher education
International Cooperation
internationalisation at home
knowledge creation as a doctoral education stage
pre-doctoral education
Scholarship
South Africa
Student Experience
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Summary:This paper qualitatively explores PhD candidates' experiences in two Sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia and South Africa. While the countries are self-evidently very different, their respective drives to graduate PhDs create a strong point of commonality, prompting the programmed initiative focused on, herein. Drawing from observational data, candidates' engagements within their proposal stage of their PhD, on a doctoral education programme, are presented. The programmes, at a stage, supported 855 candidates of whom 276 were in Ethiopia. Called, respectively, Research Capacity Initiative and PhD Proposal Development Programme, the intervention was provided by an international development co-operation programme, SANPAD, and its commissioned arm, SANTRUST. Encompassing the dimensions of gender, technology, as well as early doctoral scholarship, the paper contributes to studies that seek to understand doctoral candidates' perspectives through the theoretical lenses of 'stages of doctoral education' and "internationalisation at home".
ISSN:2331-186X
2331-186X
DOI:10.1080/2331186X.2019.1643274