1. Electronic Theses Howard Green Staffordshire University Chair. UK Council for Graduate Education

2. Format Current Trends in PGR Electronic theses – some thoughts –Examining –Culture changes –Accessibility

3. Current trends in PGR Numbers Diversity Concentration Quality assurance and compliance

4. YearTotalAnnual Growth (%) 199610,800 199711,8609.8 199812,6606.7 199913,1403.8 200013,6704.0 200114,1153.2 200214,2100.6 Source: HESA Table 13 Table 1: Total number of Doctorates awarded by UK HEIs, 1996-2002

5. Table 2: The Distribution of Doctorates awarded by Institution (2000) QuartileNumber of Institutions Upper5 Second9 Third18 Lower97

6. Some Implications Managing Tracking Supervising Examining

7. Issues - Diversity Full time/part time Disciplinary Types of doctoral awards and associated outputs. –Mathematics to Music –Published works to Professional Doctorates

8. Table 3: Mode of Attendance 2001/02 Total: Old Universities471584494992107 Total: New Universities5095817513270 Total: Colleges of Higher Education 63111641795 Grand Total:528845428810712

9. Table 3: Doctorates awarded 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 Subject Group2000/20012001/2002 Medical and Biomedical Sciences 41754515 Natural Sciences and Engineering 53955090 Social Sciences19151940 Arts and Humanities24152455 Combined Subjects215205 Total1411514210

10. Table 4: Professional Doctorate Programmes in UK Universities 1998 to 2000 YearPD Programmes 1998109 1999128 2000153

11. Table 5: Professional Doctorates in the different disciplines - 1998 Doctor of Education Doctor of Engineering Doctor of Clinical Psychology Doctor of Psychology Doctor of Educational Psychology Doctor of Counselling Psychology Doctor of Occupational Psychology Doctor of Clinical Science-Psychotherapy Doctor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Doctor of Business Administration Doctor of Administration Doctor of Finance

12. Quality Assurance HEFCE/ Joint Funding Councils – Improving Standards QAA Review of PGR Code of Practice

13. Examining – Current Practice Very variable –Stage 1 –Hard/soft/ring – bound –Some use of E for appendices etc. –Stage 2 Final –Bound

14. Examination Issues Negatives –Need to print? Cost transfer –IT skills of external –Screen reading –Definitive versions –Stability and modification

15. Examining Positives –Word/text searches –Plagiarism checks –Check validity

16. Culture Change Very slow change process for all PhD work Gold standard(s) Amending Regulations – not a problem?? As no BS – good time to attend to this too?

17. Accessibility Would help (increased difficulty in getting copy) Accessible to who? Plagiarism?