British Council Disturbed by Attrition from Social-Science Doctoral Programs.

The article reports that Great Britain's Social Science Research Council was dismayed over the unusually large number of dropouts from doctoral programs in the social sciences. This large number was discovered by a recent study that had revealed that out of the 744 students who were given council gr...

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Published in:Chronicle of Higher Education Vol. 21; no. 5; p. 16
Main Author: Walker, David
Format: Article
Published: Chronicle of Higher Education 9/22/1980
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