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There has been extensive debate and discussion in the past few years on the nature of PhD education. A meeting organised by the Chemical and Physical Sciences Committee at the Royal Irish Academy focused on PhD education in chemistry and physics, and their related interdisciplinary areas.
At the meeting there was strong support for establishing structured PhD programmes in chemistry and physics for all PhD students. The consensus of the participants was that structured PhD programmes should be administered on a discipline-specific basis (i.e. in chemistry or in physics) and that interdisciplinary PhD programmes exist in a common framework with discipline specific programmes. Module sharing across programmes should be pursued to avoid duplication.
A full version of the report is available here
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