Australia’s universities are under pressure to “shuttle through” PhD students as quickly as possible, undermining the research impact and value of a doctoral degree, a federal inquiry has been told.
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations says that “damaging university policy changes” are reducing the breadth of content and time allocated to complete a doctorate.
It wants the time taken to complete a PhD to be extended to “four to five years” in federal regulations that set minimum standards for tertiary degrees.
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