Position Papers

University funding and assessment
The report of a Working Group set up to consider and recommend how universities should be funded for carrying out their 4 proposed core activities (November 2002)

Postgraduate Training in the Life Sciences (January 2000)
A Working Party set up by the UK Life Sciences Committee made a strong case for improved PhD stipends on the basis of the need for research careers to compete with alternatives in other professions for attracting the best young life science graduates. It argued the case for most life sciences PhDs to be 4-year courses, but recommended that Research Councils should introduce a Research Training Grant system. This would allow individual universities to make the important decisions on balancing level of stipend and duration of training with PhD numbers

The Report of the Working Party was sent to the Director General of the Research Councils, to individual Research Councils and to the Science Minister

Graduate attributes (Octoober 1997)

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