Impact of Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development (SOP HRD) on Doctoral Thesis Rate of Defending and Publishing Activity of Doctoral Students enrolled in the Universities of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine from Romania

Abstract

In the last 15 years, from the point of view of enrollment, the evolution of higher education in the fields of agriculture and veterinary medicine emphasizes a continuous increase in the number of students. In this study we propose an analysis of the SOP HRD impact on the doctoral studies in the fields of agronomy and veterinary medicine, expressed in publishing activity, participations to conferences and rate of overall defended theses by four Universities of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine from Romania. STATISTICA v. 8.0 for Windows, software was used for data processing. Strong interrelationships are emphasized (R = 0.873, 76.30%) between the defended doctoral theses, published papers and presented papers at conferences.. According to the Principal Component Analysis, the number of published papers has almost the same importance (52.10%), although is slightly higher, compared to the number of presentations held at conferences (47.90%). The Cluster Analysis and ANOVA Analysis of Variance show that published papers are the most important factor in defending doctoral theses considered in all 8 SOP HRD projects in the field of agronomy and veterinary medicine.