Ученая степень в течение многих лет представляет собой объект стремлений тех, кто занимается научными исследованиями или преподаванием, а также тех, кто жаждет...

It is the text of the lecture given to the students of the State University Higher School of Economics on April 10, 2008. Two problems are discussed: how to write thesis and how to write articles.

Supervision of students’ dissertations and theses is by no means a small task for Open and Distance Education supervisors. Supervisors have diverse research backgrounds, expertise and experience (Pearce, 2005). Some supervisors appear to be more comfortable with the supervision of qualitative...

This paper addresses the issue of “dissertations for sale” in Russia. The tasks of this anthropological study include establishing the problem of corruption in doctoral education, identification of the dissertations suppliers, study of the specific services they offer, analysis of their...

The main objective of this paper is to do a content analysis of the production of master’s theses and doctoral dissertations of the graduate program in Demography at Cedeplar/UFMG between April 1989 and May 2009. More specifically, the paper aims at (i) verifying how the topics under study...