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“Covid 19, PhDs and Declining Admissions”.
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Alina Adriana Minea
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Allison OReilly

Alina Adriana Minea, professor for engineering and Director of the Doctoral Office at the Technical University of Iasi in Romania and describes the impact of the Covid-19 crisis, especially for the area of doctoral education. She is especially worried about the decline of enrolment numbers due to the Crisis. For Alina it was important to hear how other universities deal with this, so we decided to record a podcast on this topic to start a discussion.

If you want to contact Alina directly you can reach her here: aminea@tuiasi.ro

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