Quality assurance implementation and doctoral study cycle management in low resources economies

Abstract

The Bologna Process Accord 1999 has precisely identified three study cycles; Bachelor’s degree cycle, Master’s cycle and Doctoral cycle that ought to benefit from quality assurance Policy implementation. As mentioned in other chapters within this book, doctoral studies qualify students as potential resource persons that are capable of adding new knowledge to the existing stances. Knowledge economies have identified postgraduate qualifications (in this context PhD) as valuable means through which organizations can sturdily harness competitiveness in terms of innovation and creativity leading to the high-quality productivity of both goods and services. Technology advancement parse may not increase quality without brain workers to manipulate and direct production. There is a quest for increasing opportunities for doctoral enrollments and funding opportunities in low-resource countries.