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    Please explain UNISA doctorate???!!!

    Okay cool, I get it. You are welcome. I can comment on a very narrow personal experience with the DBL program only. All the other doctorates at...
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Mar 12, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Please explain UNISA doctorate???!!!

    This is usually the time and tone where I bow out of these threads. Yes, I enjoyed the visits to SA. The DBL program is very clear that you have...
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Mar 12, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Please explain UNISA doctorate???!!!

    I honestly had no hassles with UNISA, and found the process to earn my doctorate was very well laid out and smooth. You need to go through an...
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Mar 12, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Please explain UNISA doctorate???!!!

    If you have a really strong handle on what you want to research, then a research doctorate is a good choice. If you want to learn more about a...
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Mar 11, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Please explain UNISA doctorate???!!!

    In some programs like mine, one of the final gates is external reviews, done by people not directly connected to the school. It's a good QC...
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Mar 11, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Please explain UNISA doctorate???!!!

    This is very true in my experience. It IS all or nothing, and "nothing" looms as a very real possibility until you are done external reviews and...
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Mar 10, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Please explain UNISA doctorate???!!!

    Thanks Steve, well said. :)
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Mar 10, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Dbl program at unisa

    Well said! It was almost the same for the DBL at UNISA. Tons of work including the big first year paper, and serial defenses of the work in stages...
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Feb 24, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Dbl program at unisa

    Hmmm... I did one, but I think I may have lost sight of the question - LOL. :)
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Feb 22, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Dbl program at unisa

    Sorry, but I'm done here. My intention was to be helpful and encouraging to someone who seemed pleased to be accepted to the program, not to join...
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Feb 18, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Dbl program at unisa

    Sure. Just making the point that anyone can search for the school and see it is a fine, long-established, legitimate university and that my thesis...
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Feb 16, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Dbl program at unisa

    Congrats to you. I enjoyed the DBL program and found it fun. Nobody has questioned the school, but I am not trying for a tenure track position or...
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Feb 16, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    do online students miss out on the "university experience"

    I'd go online. You can get enough of the on-campus experience some other time by taking a 12 week night course in your own town and showing up in...
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Jan 23, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Structuring SA PhD Studies

    Great question, and good on you for getting a jump on the process. I would say the best thing you can do right now is keep reading, and log...
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Jan 10, 2014 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions
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    Academic hiring

    My outlook has always been to take whatever you have attained, be proud of it, and go where you will be a bigger (i.e. more appreciated) fish in a...
    Post by: distancedoc2007, Dec 29, 2013 in forum: General Distance Learning Discussions