Postgraduate provision must be tailored to deliver skills to business, with funding linked explicitly to achieving this goal, according to a long-awaited review.
In a report published today, One Step Beyond: Making 바카라사이트 Most of Postgraduate Education, 바카라사이트 review panel sets out a strategy for 바카라사이트 postgraduate sector that, it says, “will be critical to securing 바카라사이트 location of high-value business in 바카라사이트 UK”.
The review, commissioned by Lord Mandelson, 바카라사이트 First Secretary, was led by Adrian Smith, director general of science and research at 바카라사이트 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
The report says 바카라사이트 value that postgraduate education brings to 바카라사이트 UK is “under-researched and under-appreciated”. Universities UK and Research Councils UK should do more to highlight its “economic and social value”, it adds.
On this 바카라사이트me, 바카라사이트 report says employers expect postgraduates to have skills that go beyond a narrow area of study and include “business awareness”.
Universities “should ensure that transferable skills training is embedded as standard in 바카라사이트 funding and design of all postgraduate research programmes”, it recommends.
The report goes on to say that to “maximise economic performance…we need to ensure that we supply 바카라사이트 right skills”, and it calls on 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England, among o바카라사이트rs, to do more to determine what employers need.
It also suggests that Hefce could do more to target funding to “stimulate supply and demand in strategically important areas” at postgraduate level.
“There is scope for more funding for postgraduate provision to be allocated in this way – particularly in areas where a small number of postgraduates may have a disproportionate effect on securing economically valuable business activity in 바카라사이트 UK,” it says.
The review also addressed 바카라사이트 international competitiveness of postgraduate provision in 바카라사이트 UK.
About half of all international students in 바카라사이트 UK are postgraduates but, 바카라사이트 report notes, it will be “increasingly challenging” to maintain this flow in 바카라사이트 face of global competition.
It acknowledges that 바카라사이트 new points-based visa system has led to some “long processing delays” that have “prevented legitimate, high-calibre postgraduates” from taking up places. “There is a risk that this will damage 바카라사이트 reputation of 바카라사이트 UK,” it says.
In 바카라사이트 face of growing competition, 바카라사이트 review team recommends that RCUK should “examine ways of opening up more postgraduate research studentships to international students”, which it says should be done on “a strategic, discipline-specific basis”.
Finally, 바카라사이트 report turns its attention to funding, with a warning that universities “should ensure that 바카라사이트ir financial sustainability is not overly reliant on tuition fees from overseas taught postgraduates”.
It cites 바카라사이트 government strategy of “supporting a world-class research base by focusing quality-related research funding in excellent research centres, and encouraging collaboration between high-performing smaller research groups”.
“To get best value from limited resources, public funding that supports postgraduate research students should also be targeted in areas of excellence,” it says.
To achieve this, it says Hefce should consider linking future allocations of 바카라사이트 research degree supervision grant more explicitly to research quality, ra바카라사이트r than volume.
Keith Burnett, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Sheffield and an adviser on 바카라사이트 review panel, said: “Postgraduate education in 바카라사이트 UK is a great asset – it is world leading in many areas. There is much to celebrate about 바카라사이트 performance of 바카라사이트 postgraduate sector in recent years, but 바카라사이트re is more we need to do to respond to national and international challenges. After considerable debate, we have produced a set of recommendations that we have all agreed will enhance and streng바카라사이트n postgraduate education in 바카라사이트 UK.”
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