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Sioux McKenna

Sioux McKenna is the coordinator of a Higher Education Studies PhD programme in the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning at Rhodes University. This programme brings together academics from across the country and the continent more broadly to interrogate a spread of issues pertaining to higher education.

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Why Developing Countries are Vulnerable to Predatory Journals

By Sioux McKenna | Published: September 18, 2018

Predatory publications are different from mainstream journals because they charge exorbitant fees to publish the articles they solicit, and they don’t follow any of the quality assurance processes expected in academic publication. Academics in the...

Five Things to Think About if You’re Considering a Doctorate

By Sioux McKenna | Published: September 2, 2015

After collecting reflections on their PhD journey from 28 doctoral scholars, Rhodes University's Sioux McKenna distilled some of their collected wisdom into five ideas that might make the uphill effort to earn a doctorate less...

Posted in Career | Tagged Doctorates, The Conversation | Leave a comment

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