The expectations graduate schools have to lift up to are high. In order to be successful in the long run, they have to combine basic units’ entrepreneurship with the promotion of excellence in research and continuous quality control at the same...

In Romania, a PhD can expect to earn 15% more than her fellows without this kind of qualification if she decides to work in a public sector institution. This and more can be learned in Mircea Miclea’s presentation. He gives a short overview of...

Inter- and multidisciplinarity is a key feature of postgraduate training at the Imperial College in London. In addition, the importance of regular and intensive skills training has been accentuated since the decision to establish a Graduate...

What is it like to study at the Ruhr-University Research School? In the context of the Conference »Form Follows Function - Comparing Forms of Doctoral Training in Europe and North America« Roland Fischer and Thomas Koch gave an answer to that...

The major objective of this report was to gain more insight into curriculum reform developments at the level of five selected study areas – so far under‐researched – to evaluate progress made and to try to discover »what works«. The five study...

Whatever you would like to know about the doctoral education at the The International Max Planck Research School, Erwin Neher and Steffen Burkhardt will be able to tell you. At the HRK conference on doctoral training in Europe and North America...