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Phd for professionals ?

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  • 02-12-2013 6:54pm
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    Zipppy
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    Can anyone explain what this is?
    I'm assuming it's where you compete a phd as part or alongside your professional full time career and is accommodated by your employer ?

    If I'm correct, can anyone advise what the normal completion timeframe is ?
    Six years?


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    Zipppy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Zipppy


    Anyone?


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    Tom Dunne
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    Is it possibly a Professional Doctorate you are referring to?

    I am doing an EdD (Doctorate in Education) - it is one of many such professional doctorates. Same level as PhD, but more of a career orientation. The difference was explained to me thus: a person undertaking a PhD is a professional scholar, a person undertaking an EdD is a scholarly professional.

    Any yes, six years is typical for what I am talking about.


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    ucdperson
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    Part time PhDs can be completed over 6 years in many disciplines.


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    castaway_lady
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    Yep its a professional doctorate. In PhDs you generally research something theoretical while a Pro Doctorate often requires looking at existing models of working practice and developing new ones or modifying them.


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