- Title
- Honours : a taken-for-granted pathway to research?
- Creator
- Zeegers, Margaret; Barron, Deirdre
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/64826
- Identifier
- vital:2119
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-008-9162-0
- Identifier
- ISSN:0018-1560
- Abstract
- In this paper we examine variations in Honours programs in Australian universities and the consequences that this has for students who wish to undertake higher degrees by research after their undergraduate programs have been successfully completed. Our review of universities' Honours programs across rural, regional, and urban Australia has indicated that there is a degree of variation that is localised as far as each university is concerned, and that there is a lack of consistency in various universities' application of policies or procedures in the implementation of their Honours programs. We conclude by calling for greater consistency across universities in Australia in the awarding of Honours, certainly, but also suggesting that a review needs to be undertaken as part of national, systematic and orchestrated project.
- Relation
- Higher Education Vol. 57, no. 5 (2009), p. 567-575
- Rights
- Copyright Springer
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Honours degrees; Pathways to higher degree research study; Research; Training; Australia
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