Measures for Ph.D. Evaluation: the Recruitment Process

Antonella D'Agostino (), Stefania Fruzzetti (), Giulio Ghellini () and Laura Neri ()

Department of Economics University of Siena from Department of Economics, University of Siena

Abstract: Recently the quality of Higher Education (HE) system and its evaluation have been key issues of the political and scientific debate on education policies all over Europe. In the wide landscape that involves the entire HE system we draw attention on the third level of its organization, i.e. the Ph.D. In particular, this paper discusses the necessity of monitoring the recruitment process of Ph.D. system because it represents a fundamental aspect of the Ph.D. system as a whole. We introduce a set of concepts related to the recruitment process and then we make them computable with synthetic indicators. The study provides an empirical analysis based on doctoral schools of four academic years at the University of Siena. Proposed indicators are finally used for detecting weakness and strength of each Ph.D. school.

Keywords: Ph.D. schools; Ph.D.s. recruitment; diversity; external attractiveness; polarization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-10
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