doktorand

English translation: doctoral student

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Swedish term or phrase:doktorand
English translation:doctoral student
Entered by: Charlesp

15:36 Mar 29, 2016
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Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy
Swedish term or phrase: doktorand
my question here specifically is if a licentiate student can be called a doktorand. Does the term incompass both licentiate andPhD students - i.e. are both called doctoral students - in Swedish higher education?
Charlesp
Sweden
Local time: 16:42
doctoral student
Explanation:
As I understand it, a postgraduate student and a licentiate student are the same, i.e. they already have a university degree, but the level of the degree is not specified and can vary from country to country and institution to institution. However, a "doktorand" is always a doctoral (PhD) student.
I have 2 glossaries from Lund University, one uses post-graduate and the other uses doctoral.
I always suspected that a post-graduate student could originally have been a student with a bachelor, studying for a masters, but it has now come to mean a student with a masters, studying for a PhD. But all of this is really just guessing - hope it helps.
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Diarmuid Kennan
Ireland
Local time: 15:42
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There doesn't seem to be any consensus on this in actual (but as the question needs to be closed....), however my conclusion is that "doctoral student" (or PhD candidate) is what it is, and that it does not refer to a lower degree than a PhD.
HOWEVER, it seems that it is used to generally refer to graduate students, i.e. both at the doctoral and masters level.
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5forskarstuderande
Sophie Påhlsson
2 +1doctoral student
Diarmuid Kennan


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doctoral student


Explanation:
As I understand it, a postgraduate student and a licentiate student are the same, i.e. they already have a university degree, but the level of the degree is not specified and can vary from country to country and institution to institution. However, a "doktorand" is always a doctoral (PhD) student.
I have 2 glossaries from Lund University, one uses post-graduate and the other uses doctoral.
I always suspected that a post-graduate student could originally have been a student with a bachelor, studying for a masters, but it has now come to mean a student with a masters, studying for a PhD. But all of this is really just guessing - hope it helps.

Diarmuid Kennan
Ireland
Local time: 15:42
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
There doesn't seem to be any consensus on this in actual (but as the question needs to be closed....), however my conclusion is that "doctoral student" (or PhD candidate) is what it is, and that it does not refer to a lower degree than a PhD.
HOWEVER, it seems that it is used to generally refer to graduate students, i.e. both at the doctoral and masters level.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks Diarmuid . That is exactly! what I what I was looking for. Thanks for your input, it is very helpful.


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forskarstuderande


Explanation:
Having worked at a Swedish university, I would agree with Daniel. I would suggest using "forskarstuderande" since it covers both.

Sophie Påhlsson
Sweden
Local time: 16:42
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