Aim/Purpose: Research on students in higher education contexts to date has focused
primarily on the experiences undergraduates, largely overlooking topics relevant to doctoral …

A doctorate degree is characterized in the literature as a time of high stress and uncertainty
for students as well as subject to worrisome attrition rates, with an estimated 50% of doctoral …

Postgraduate education has become increasingly crucial for nations in recent years,
contributing to scientific, technological, and social progress. However, high dropout rates …

This study investigates PhD candidates'(N= 391) perceptions about their research
environment at a Dutch university in terms of the research climate,(un) ethical supervisory …

Student academic performance is an important indicator of doctoral education quality, but
limited research has focused on how multiple influential factors of doctoral students' …

For many institutions, to ignore your university's ranking is to become invisible, a risky
proposition in a competitive search for funding. But rankings tell us little if anything about the …

Based on a synthesis of persistence theory and the empirical literature, an online doctoral
program integration model was developed using data from 232 online EdD students. A …

Withdrawal from doctoral education has been recognized as a problem with negative
consequences for different actors, leading researchers worldwide to explore its underlying …

Although high PhD attrition rates are a matter of international concern, the factors that lead
doctoral researchers to leave their programmes are not well understood. The present study …

Recent rationalisation of academic work has challenged the role of traditional supervision,
which still plays a significant part in students' experiences of their doctoral studies …