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标题：A double helix the postgraduate research skills agenda and the doctorate
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作者：Margaret E Malloch
期刊名称：Work Based Learning e-Journal
电子版ISSN：2044-7868
出版年度：2013
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：27-44
出版社：Middlesex University
摘要：The articleexplores and compares the approaches taken by two universities in twocountries, England and Australia, for the implementation of government initiatedpostgraduate research skill development. In England the VITAE, and QAA bodies haveestablishedattributes,skillsorcompetenciestobeachievedwhilstundertakingdoctoralresearch. Australia has also introduced attributes to be achieved. Progress in theachievementoftheseisreporteduponintheindividualannualstudentprogressreports.The skills tobe achieved include transferable skills needed for employment such astaking personal responsibility and being able to operate in uncertain situations (QAA,2008, p.24),theknowledge and skills to doresearch, knowledgeof the standardsandrequirements,theknowledgeandskillstoworkwithothersandensurethewiderimpactoftheresearch,andpersonalqualitiestobearesearcher (Vitae, 2010).TheAustralianQualificationsFrameworksimilarlyemphasisesthedevelopmentofskillsandknowledgeand theapplication of these with authority, responsibility and autonomy (AQF, 2011).There is also an emphasis on career planning, useful and appropriate given that anincreasingnumberofthosegraduatingwithdoctoratesdonotentertheacademy, andcareers already embarked upon may be enhanced by a doctorate and other doorsopened