首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Pity those who aspire to put the initials PhD after their names. After 16 years of closely supervised education, prospective doc
Pity those who aspire to put the initials PhD after their names. After 16 years of closely supervised education, prospective doc
admin
2013-01-12
59
问题
Pity those who aspire to put the initials PhD after their names. After 16 years of closely supervised education, prospective doctors of philosophy are left more or less alone to write the equivalent of a large book. Most social-science postgraduates have still not completed their theses by the time their grant runs out after three years. "They must then get a job and finish in their spare time, which can often take a further three years. By then, most new doctors are sick to death of the narrowly defined subject, which has blighted their holidays and mined their evenings.
The Economic and Social Research Council, which gives grants to postgraduate social scientists, wants to get better value for money by cutting short this agony. It would like to see faster completion rates: until recently, only about 25% of PhD candidates were finishing within four years. The ESRC’ s response has been to stop PhD grants to all institutions where the proportion taking less than four years is below 10%; in the first year of this policy the national average shot up to 39%. The ESRC feels vindicated in its toughness, and will progressively raise the threshold to 40% in two years. Unless completion rates improve further, this would exclude 55 out of 73 universities and polytechnics-including Oxford University, the London School of Economics and the London Business School.
Predictably, howls of protest have come from the universities, who view the blacklisting of whole institutions as arbitrary and negative. They point out that many of the best students go quickly into jobs where they can apply their research skills, but consequently take longer to finish their theses. Polytechnics with as few as two PhD candidates complain that they are penalized by random fluctuations in student performance. The colleges say there is no hard evidence to prove that faster completion rates result from greater efficiency rather than lower standards or less ambitious doctoral topics.
The ESRC thinks it might not be a bad thing if PhD students were more modest in their aims. It would prefer to see more systematic teaching of research skills and fewer unrealistic expectations placed on young men and women who are undertaking their first piece of serious research. So in future its grants will be given only where it is convinced that students are being trained as researchers, rather than carrying out purely knowledge-based studies.
The ESRC can not dictate the standard of thesis required by external examiners, or force departments to give graduates more teaching time. The most it can do is to try to persuade universities to change their ways. Recalcitrant professors should note that students want more research training and a less elaborate style of thesis, too.
All the following statements are the argument against ESRC’ s policy except
选项
A、all the institutions on the blacklist are arbitrary and negative
B、there is no hard evidence to prove that faster completion rates result from greater efficiency rather than lower standards or less ambitious doctoral topics
C、many of the best students go quickly into jobs where they can apply their research skills, but consequently take longer to finish their theses
D、some polytechnics are penalized by random fluctuations in student performance
答案
A
解析
文章第三段讲述了反对者的声音。他们认为"the blacklisting of whole institutions as arbitrary and negative",作者并没有说这是事实,故答案为选项A。选项B、C和D均可在第三段中找到。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/wx9O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
ThomasWolfeportrayedpeoplesothatyoucametoknowtheiryearnings,theirimpulses,andtheirwarts--thiswaseffective____
Writeanessayofabout200wordsonthetopic:"ChinaIsnotReadyforE-education"(E-education:atypeofeducationconducted
Asisknowntoall,avaguelawisalways______todifferentinterpretations.
Mostpeoplewhotravellongdistancescomplainofjetlag.Jetlagmakesbusinesstravelerslessproductiveandmoreprone【51】maki
Inscoresofexperiments,scientistsarechangingthegeneticendowmentsofplantsandanimals,andtheresultscould______are
Inanallergicreaction,theimmunesystemmistakenly______aharmlesssubstanceasaharmfulone.
71.Thestudyofgeneticsistodaysofaradvancedthatweshallsoonbeabletoproduceakindofgenetically"perfectsuperman
Howeverimportantwemayregardschoollifetobe,thereisnogainsayingthefactthatchildrenspendmoretimeathomethanin
Onleaving,wethankedhimmostwarmlyforthehospitality______tousandourfriends.
Officerevolution(notonly)haschanged(how)workisdonebut(redefined)thefunctionofeveryonewho(works)inanoffice.
随机试题
在思考问题和解决问题时,推理严谨,层次分明,论证充分,结论确凿。这反映了思维的()。
封闭环公差等于( )。
患者双下肢关节游走性疼痛,肿胀,时有寒热,舌苔黄腻,脉浮;治疗除对症取穴外,整体取穴还应配()
下列资产工具可以作为金融期货合约标的物的有()。
政府可以通过( )方式来引导和调节社会投资方向,以提高社会整体投资效率。
下列属于关于公司利润分配的正确排序程序的是()。
发现教学模式倡导学生独立发现问题、解决问题,实现认识的过程,强调学生的主体。这一教学模式的提出者是()
事后监督,是指监督主体在公安机关及其人民警察执法行为终结之后进行的监督,如行政复议、行政诉讼、督察监督等。事后监督是对执法行为的后果进行的监督。()
不可以想象,没有以学术作为内容的思想,将成为怎样一种思想,而没有思想的学术,这种学术还有什么价值?思想和学术它们之间没有“不是东风压倒西风,便是西风压倒东风”那种______的关系。填入横线部分最恰当的一项是()
设a>0,x1>0,且定义xn+1=(n=1,2,…),证明:xn存在并求其值.
最新回复
(
0
)