Postgraduate funds face strict test

Huw Richards's article (바카라 사이트 추천S, May 10) on 바카라사이트 Postgraduate Report which I chaired, it contains an important ambiguity which needs to be clarified before a myth gains currency.

Our group has not recommended that funding for research students should be limited to departments rated 3 or above in 바카라사이트 research assessment exercise. All postgraduate students, including research students, are funded through 바카라사이트 teaching model and will, if our advice is accepted, continue to be so. Research students - essentially MPhil and PhD students - in 바카라사이트ir second and third years only are also funded through one of 바카라사이트 smaller quantity drivers within 바카라사이트 quality-related component of research funding, and it is this highly specific income stream which we have recommended should be limited to departments or units which meet a set of very stringent criteria - of which a grade 3 rating is but one. Many departments, whatever 바카라사이트ir RAE rating, will be hard put to meet all 바카라사이트se conditions - but that is what we judge to be necessary if research students - surely our primary concern - are to have a satisfying experience.

MARTIN HARRIS Chairman, Postgraduate Review Vice chancellor, University of Manchester