PhD students' experiences of thesis supervision in malaysia: Managing relationships in the midst of institutional change

Qualitative Report

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 802-822

  Krauss, Steven Eric ^a   Ismail, Ismi Arif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Doctoral students; In depth interviews; Management; Supervision; Supervisory relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954477940     PISSN: 10520147     EISSN: 21603715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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