我们已为那些希望详细探索专业教育领域并为所选领域的知识和实践发展做出贡献的人们开发了该计划。我们仅关注高等教育。您可以通过实证研究或将您在该领域的出版物整理在一起以对您的独特贡献进行分析来进行此工作。学习增强和发展（LEaD）的存在是为了支持学生和教职员工创造和实现最佳的教育体验。该系是中央服务部，一个学术系，并拥有一支活跃的研究团队。它在管理与改善纽约市教育文化有关的变化中扮演着至关重要的角色。支持包括，灵活，创新和创新在内的课程设计和交付，提供专业发展以支持卓越的教育实践，支持学生最大程度地发挥潜力，
This Professional Education PhDMPhil allows you to closely examine a specific area of higher education. You will conduct research or combine your publications to create a unique analytical account. You will shape your own experience of the Professional Education PhDMPhil. By concentrating on one element of higher education through in-depth research, you will produce a major body of work and position yourself as an expert. City’s Learning Enhancement and Development (LEaD) is a central service and an academic department with a research-active team. It will help you create and realise the best possible research programme. Our research-active team plays a key role in developing the educational culture here. The design of your PhD or MPhil will be a collaboration between us and you. We are flexible and creative, offering professional development opportunities to support educational practice. This enables you to achieve your maximum potential.Three types of doctorates from LEaD.Traditional PhDThe focus of this route is on academic inquiry and scholarship which requires a significant and original contribution to knowledge. The focus is usually on developing academic knowledge in this area and requires a study focused on scholarly activity in the area.On completion of study a thesis of between 80,000 -100,000 words is submitted.PhD by Prior PublicationThis route focusses on those that have published in their discipline and have demonstrated an original contribution of knowledge in this area. The components of the submission includes the body of published work and a supporting document which synthesises the published work and indicates clearly the original contribution to knowledge (20,000 words).PhD by Prospective PublicationThis route requires you to conduct an empirical research project or a series of related projects in a similar manner to the work normally conducted for PhD presented by major thesis. The output will be a series of peer- reviewed articles which should be submitted to a journal accepted and published. The Full-time duration is 2 – 4 years; Part time: 3 – 7 years and PhD by prior publication: 1 – 2 years.