Postgraduate and early career
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
Isolation is part of the experience, but peer support groups and co-working can combat loneliness and quell students’ self-doubt
Students who want to do master’s degrees are stymied by a lack of state finance. Paul Jump investigates how funding can be fixed
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
Research indicates South Korean academics’ productivity drops over time
The most expensive degrees in the world are said to be subsidising scholarship
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 Siân Lindsay’s research on doctoral completion has yielded valuable insights and practical advice
Colleen Flaherty reports for InsideHigherEd 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
Prospective postgraduate students are to be given extra information on how to choose the right course thanks to a new website.
George Osborne has predicted that 22 new Centres for Doctoral Training will “inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers”.
National group would be the UK’s first to target help for minority ethnic doctoral students
Academics discuss how supervisors shaped their teaching
Early career researchers to be represented on university committees
Scheme to be run jointly with Higher Education Funding Council for England
Poor theses often betray inexpert supervision, say external examiners David Alexander and Ian Davis
Academics who complete their PhDs during a recession are significantly more productive in the long-term than those who do so during a boom, research suggests.
Employers unaware of how doctorates have broadened to prepare postgraduates for work
Research councils may have to ‘rethink’ requirements because of cuts to lower-level courses
Long hours, job insecurity and need for mentoring noted in global survey of young scientists
Taught postgraduate courses are facing a “perfect storm” caused by drops in student numbers and a fall in institution income
£10 million scheme set up to counteract disincentivisation of undergraduate debt for potential researchers
Early career life scientists have teaching and administrative burden lifted
Skills, reputation and peer networks can be built online even when stuck in the lab
Research scientists would prefer to align work with own values, study reveals
Brian Martin suggests how junior researchers can fight against the well-kept secret of academic exploitation
Research council hopes to claw back cash to fund centres that missed out during initial bidding process
Idea of borrowing to study is ‘totally alien’ to some students, so take-up may be low
Ideology and myopia threatens the future of some of the UK’s best humanities departments, warns Louis Goddard
Industry and funders still back blue-skies thinking, doctoral conference hears
More than £25 million has been awarded by England’s funding council to 20 pilot projects designed to support postgraduate students.
A further 10 UK universities have gained an award that recognises commitment to developing the careers of researchers.
Council pushes government to provide additional funding in light of abundance of high quality bids to run centres for doctoral training
Research council reveals details of its scheme for PhD provision
The 1994 Group has urged the government to introduce a postgraduate loan system to combat a 12 per cent drop in student numbers over three years.
Seventy-five institutions have been awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s new PhD funding scheme.
About three quarters of taught postgraduate students are happy with the teaching and learning on their course, a new national survey says.
Development programmes can make for speedier submission of theses, research suggests
The rise of the taught master’s course has come with a troubling shift in focus towards ‘employability’