Curriculum coherence when subject-specific standards are absent: a case study using coursework-based master of finance programs at Australian universities
以澳大利亚大学授课型金融硕士项目为例，研究缺乏学科特定标准如何导致毕业生就业能力不统一、忽视必要专业知识以及纳入非整合的非学科课程，并提出相似度指标来量化项目结构差异。
The standardisation of a curriculum is a contentious issue, with critics complaining it leads to a loss of control and creativity. What is less clear, however, is how the lack of standardisation impacts a discipline’s curriculum. This article, taking the coursework-based Master of Finance programs at Australian universities as the case study, demonstrates that lack of standardisation results in graduates with non-uniform employability, ignorance of essential professional knowledge and the incorporation of non-integrated non-discipline subjects. Further, such lack of standards causes high disparity in the structures of the programs – an issue outlined in this article through a proposed similarity metric. Overall, this article calls for subject-specific standards to overcome these issues.