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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

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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 higher education 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

By Scott Jaschik, for

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 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

By Scott Jaschik, for

Skills, reputation and peer networks can be built online even when stuck in the lab