http://www.aacsb.edu/RSS/doctoral_education.xml Business Doctoral Education News from AACSB International en-us http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2012051108232838 As the realities of the 21st century present a strong case for the reexamination of the PhD in its current form, governments the world over have decided that higher education, research and innovation systems that are tightly linked to economic development are a prerequisite for a knowledge economy. http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2012050514220249 SANTRUST, a South Africa-based educational trust, has developed a "pre-doctoral proposal development program", which over the past five years has seen 730 pre-doctoral candidates and 430 research supervisors go through a "front-loaded efficiency model" PhD preparation program. Doctoral Education http://www.marketwatch.com/story/capella-university-announces-six-shared-doctoral-business-specializations-2012-05-02 The online university continues to design doctoral specializations with an emphasis on sharing between the PhD and DBA, adding Accounting, IT Management, and Project Management specializations to both degrees. Doctoral Education http://tinyurl.com/7c862w3 The University of Southern California and the Chilean Ministry of Education announced the creation of a partnership that will provide Ph.D. students from Chile with full tuition and living stipends as they pursue advanced degrees at USC. Doctoral Education