How to Categorize PhD Candidates in Australia

In australia there's very few PhD programs that actually include coursework usually it's just kind of work out of question to your confirmation off. In the states they often have a lot of coursework so what does that tell us about how maybe the state's first is australia is categorizing PhD candidates along the spectrum uh from novice to expert and where do you think the average PhD candidate is within that? i'm still astounded at again having to go back to basics on teaching, she says. "We should actually consider doctoral students coming in as novices for the task that's ahead of them"