摘要：The quality versus quantity debate currently lies at the centre of national debates on the production of PhDs.The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) report 2 was the first comprehensive report on PhD trainingin South Africa. It covered the period from 2000 to 2007 and called for an urgent increase in the quantity of‘high-quality PhDs’ produced in South Africa. The call for a national increase in doctoral production is echoedby the National Planning Commission of South Africa that envisions the nearly threefold increase in productionof doctorates to 5000 doctoral graduates per year by 2030, while the National Development Plan of South Africaenvisages that 70% of all academic staff employed at universities in South Africa will have doctorates within thesame period of time (nearly double the current 40%). 3 The figures seem to emphasise quantity over quality, whichhas raised concerns over a production-focused mode of doctoral education within the academic community.
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