Workshop on Doctoral Studies

The workshop will give an overview of different models of doctoral education and comparing different practices of doctoral studies in Estonia and abroad. To this end, jointly with Universities Estonia (the association of six Estonian public universities) and Ministry of Education and Research are organising an international seminar, where we will host representatives of our partner institutions from Finland, Belgium, United Kingdom and the Netherlands to share their practices and recent developments.

We will try to answer the following questions at the seminar:

• The distribution of responsibilities between faculties and graduate schools in the organisation of doctoral studies: the role of the graduate school in doctoral training?
• The structure of doctoral study programmes (incl. the proportion of compulsory courses): What incentives/support is provided for students to take up doctoral studies? How is students’ development/progress in writing the thesis assessed?
• Thesis requirements: Apart from PhD, are there other types of doctoral degrees that can be pursued (e.g. industrial doctorate)?
• How many of the doctoral students simultaneously hold a (teaching/research) position at the university? What regulations apply to such positions? How many doctoral students choose a non-academic career after graduation?

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