Assessing PhD supervisors ‘leads to higher completion rates’

Conference hears how University of Adelaide uses metrics to improve performance

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April 11, 2017

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April 11, 2017

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Enhanced supervision: the university was keen to reward supervisors for ‘timely’completions, other completions and ‘student rescues’

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