Postgraduate and early career
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills consultation asks whether funding should be limited to disciplines with strongest ‘scientific and economic case’
The latest video in a series of short self-help programmes takes a sympathetic look at mental health issues
THE analyses postgrad awards by subject and region as academics debate the risks and rewards of a decade of internationalisation
Student Funder’s chief executive says an analysis shows that more than half of prospective students will miss out on the new government scheme
REF data show big jumps in number of doctoral degree awards in some subjects
Could minister Jet Bussemaker’s reforms create a ‘second-class’ group of doctoral candidates?
ESRC intends revised training strategy to better support PhD students and to speed work on new issues. Plus the latest 中国A片 appointments
Successful programme ‘jeopardised’ by ministry changes
Report into ESRC network recommends careful monitoring before next stage
Holly Else examines European efforts to make academic career paths less challenging to navigate
Junior scholars urged to develop robust profiles on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to boost their careers and ward off risk of ‘shadow self’
PhD holders may not be securing a job as easily as some governments believe
Academic staff must do more to address inequality of access to taught master’s and doctoral degrees, say Sally Hancock and Paul Wakeling
The traditional view of the PhD student as an ‘academic apprentice’ is challenged by a study
Disabled students and those from disadvantaged groups are to benefit from ?50 million of support to continue their studies at postgraduate level.
Universities told to help doctoral students explore wider career opportunities
Worries about funding do deter final-year undergraduates from progressing to postgraduate study, according a new analysis
Plans to raise researcher numbers at risk if study is unaffordable, universities warned
Fears rise in the US that talented early career scientists are being driven out of the sector because of lack of opportunities
Criticism of postgraduate loans scheme smacks of the adage: ‘never let a good deed go unpunished’, writes Andrew Wathey
Loans of up to ?10,000 to be available for master’s students under the age of 30
The chancellor has announced that the government will introduce a postgraduate loans system offering ?10,000 to young students
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THE study reveals intense competition for roles at Russell Group universities, despite new openings for those seeking a research career
A thinktank has released modelling based on a popular proposal for a state-backed loan scheme
Nick Hillman considers the likelihood of the government taking concrete steps to help postgraduate students before the election
Institutional survey finds more discontentment among doctoral students than five year ago
Four PhD students from UK universities have made it to the final of a competition that challenges them to present their research in three minutes
A research council has announced ?125 million of funding for doctoral training partnerships in the biosciences.
Time management skills and extensive reading can help students develop a sophisticated set of research questions. Plus the latest 中国A片 jobs and appointments
The University of Leeds has launched a ?100 million project to recruit 250 early career researchers to tackle major global challenges
Group to lobby coalition to highlight plight of well educated but broke early career researchers
Students who want to do master’s degrees are stymied by a lack of state finance. Paul Jump investigates how funding can be fixed
Isolation is part of the experience, but peer support groups and co-working can combat loneliness and quell students’ self-doubt
Increased likelihood that master’s and PhD students will already have postgraduate degree
Major challenges facing early career researchers have been highlighted in a new report.
?100,000 PhD funding from the Macular Society and Fight for Sight outstrip offers via MRC doctoral training partnerships
Data analysis suggests discrimination plays a role in higher number of female and BME ‘returnees’
Postgraduate research students who teach call for an end to their ‘appalling treatment’ by the university
1,700 students apply for 350 places on biggest programme ever run in the UK
Five students on how doctoral study changed them and their futures
Universities are capitalising on junior academics’ willingness to accept deteriorating working conditions, argues Luke Brunning
Student loans access for a master’s qualification thought to be principal cause
Elephant poo and ageing among the topics outlined in brief by PhD students
The most expensive degrees in the world are said to be subsidising scholarship
Research indicates South Korean academics’ productivity drops over time
Overseas students boost universities’ global links and bolster image with employers, European University Association conference told
Government aims to train 60,000 students at postgraduate level over next nine years
Universities UK warns that new funding models may create ‘significant financial risk’ for institutions
Scholar Si?n Lindsay’s research on doctoral completion has yielded valuable insights and practical advice
Colleen Flaherty reports for from the Modern Language Association conference 2014
The University of Cambridge has opened a new postdoctoral centre for early career researchers.
Contract lecturers down tools in protest over pay ‘that does not reflect hours worked’
Susan Bassnett wonders why PhD examining is still so amateurish and inconsistent in English universities
Business secretary Vince Cable has announced that companies are to recruit postgraduate students to help them break into overseas markets.
Plos One study also reveals that parenthood has little impact on publishing productivity
Doctoral training centres report rise in overseas applicants as graduate salaries lure UK talent
Survey finds earnings fluctuate by department and wages fail to reflect hours worked
