Workshops help students get to grips with the basics of research
As postgraduate degrees become increasingly essential to career advancement, more individuals look to a doctoral degree as a valuable addition to their resume.
For many students, however, the research aspect of a doctoral degree can be an unfamiliar and confusing undertaking, and some educational organisations have created workshops to help these students take their first solid steps in the research process.
Rebecca Lui, senior manager of APMI Kaplan, Kaplan's higher education division, said that senior managers and professionals in the business and education sectors saw the importance of advancing their professional development through further education.
'With the experience from conducting research in doctoral studies, these practitioners will then be able to evolve into academic thinkers,' she said.
Ms Lui said that APMI Kaplan often came across students with big ideas and world-changing visions, but who lacked the know-how to manage the time frame, resources and theories needed to support their research. In response to the needs of these students, they created a workshop five years ago that 'helped the applicants stay focused and narrow down their research in order to make it executable', said Ms Lui.
