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It reviews debates and research trends in Australia and internationally, including policy-focused work on completion, quality, supervision, costs, and benefits. 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This has been partly produced out of the collapse of the binary system in the mid eighties and the subsequent restructuring and repositioning of the higher education sector, following the interventionsand decisions of the then Minister for Education in the Federal Labor Government, indirect relation tonew and changing economic imperatives. What has emerged on the scene is a greatly expanded number of universities, within an across the board re-assessment and re-organisation of the academic-institutional agenda to take more explicitly and formally into account notions of accountability, efficiency, performativity, professionalisation and vocationalism. More broadly, the shift to a ‘post-industrial’, knowledge and information-based economy has meant increasing emphasis on educational credentials and the formation of a multi-skilled, flexible,‘informed’ workforce and citizenry. More recently, however, there have been signs ofa shift in national priorities and preoccupations, away from a more or less exclusive emphasis on economic issues and imperatives towards matters of culture, citizenship and social identity, and a new understanding of the relationship between culture and economy.  \nWithin this broad re-organisation, the question of postgraduate education looms large. In recent years there has been a considerable upsurge in activity and, as Zuber-Skerritt and Ryan (1994) point out,“intense debate” around the question of postgraduate study. In Australia and overseas, there is now a substantial body of research of various kinds into postgraduate education. In the context of increasing government pressure for universities tobe both more ‘productive’ and more accountable, however, much of this attention is focused on policy issues and questions, and on the organisation and administration of the postgraduate research degree, addressing concerns such as“completion rates; completion percentages; the quality of programs, supervision and students; and the costs and benefits of postgraduate education”(Holdaway, 1994) . In accord with the scrutiny of educational practices and programs elsewhere, in schools and related sites (eg TAFE), universities have been encouraged to rationalise their undergraduate programs and the like, and alongside this has come increasingly a call to re-evaluate similarly postgraduate programs, with reference particularly to research-oriented higher degree studies. Within this latter, the PhD program in particular has been the subject of debate, with, as well as issues already gestured at here, growing interest in matters of ‘composition’ and higher-order literacy, and of course thorny questions about ‘relevance’. The scene is set for new and innovative forms of imagining and thinking about how best the intellectual and learning resources of the nation can be harnessed in the service of genuinely significant social productivity.  \nTo date, however, as we’ve suggested, much of this debate and its attendant forms of research have concentrated more on matters of administration and procedure, protocol and policy, finance and governance, within what might be described as a new functionalist agenda organised increasingly around notions of competency, contractualism and control (Marginson, 1995) . Along similar lines, more practiceoriented research conducted to date has also focused largely on  \ncollecting information about postgraduate research students’ experiences that can inform guidelines about good supervisory practices (eg Parry and Hayden 1994; Powles, 1993), as well as on across-Faculty understandings and practices regarding postgraduate research supervision and study (eg Whittl","cbCaik0v1qnG0gJw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik0v1qnG0gJw","pdf",22583,"English","# Introduction\n## Postgraduate education debates and research focus\n## Institutionalization of functionalist regimes\n## Need for alternative research approaches","[{\"question\":\"What factors have increased concern about postgraduate studies in higher education?\",\"answer\":\"Structural changes after the mid-1980s and growing emphasis on accountability, efficiency, performativity, and professionalisation have increased interest and concern about postgraduate studies.\"},{\"question\":\"Where has much of the research and attention on postgraduate education been concentrated?\",\"answer\":\"It has largely focused on policy and administrative questions, the organization of the postgraduate research degree, and guidance related to supervision practices and program quality.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper call for alternative lines of research, particularly for PhD studies?\",\"answer\":\"Because prevailing research often concentrates on areas amenable to investigation and assessment, it can devalue or gloss over other significant aspects; alternative approaches are needed for possible reconceptualisation at the PhD level.\"}]","postgraduate studies - postgraduate pedagogy | PDF",1792080953]