PhD Admission. Ethical ambiguities

This study aims to formulate and, to a certain extent, to provide possible answers to questions such as: Who is looking for whom to initiate the PhD studentsupervisor relation? Can prior knowledge of the candidate by the supervisor generate ethical problems? Is it ethical to decide, as professors, who our PhD students will be based on “human chemistry”? How much relevant information does the candidate receive about their future academic path and how much predictability is there about how the PhD will actually develop their career? On which criteria do we decide which PhD students will receive a scholarship? Who chooses the research topic? What are the criteria we select our future doctoral students by? Is it ethical that the oral entrance exam cannot be contested? Is it ethical to produce, at all costs, a competitive environment in the PhD admissions phase? Does the distinction of tuition doctoral student vs. budgeted doctoral student produce effects in the ethical field?