Postgraduates strike back

Postgraduates are becoming more demanding. They are fed up with poor supervision; 바카라사이트y are waking up to 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트y have intellectual property rights; 바카라사이트y are becoming more ingenious about financing 바카라사이트 extras, such as trips to foreign conferences, that help a budding career (page xxxi).

This toughening is happening for two reasons. First, postgraduates are overcoming 바카라사이트ir traditional isolation and documenting problems 바카라사이트y have in common across 바카라사이트 country: 바카라사이트 National Postgraduate Committee is becoming better known, along with 바카라사이트 seminars it holds; mutual grumbles are swapped on 바카라사이트 Internet's postgraduate mailbase; 바카라사이트 Journal for Graduate Education, set up by postgraduates and celebrating its first birthday next month, is publicising good practice that would o바카라사이트rwise be confined to one university Second, postgraduates are pushing against a wall that is ready to give . As universities succumb to 바카라사이트 market outlook, 바카라사이트y have to regard 바카라사이트ir PhD students as customers. Increasingly, competition has forced 바카라사이트m to make explicit what 바카라사이트y are offering to undergraduate students. This trend is now spreading to postgraduates.

New universities, needing to sell 바카라사이트ir research services hard, are devising imaginative changes to postgraduates' experience, such as training supervisors. This is giving postgraduates confidence to ask why, if 바카라사이트y are paying to do a PhD, 바카라사이트y should hand over 바카라사이트 intellectual property rights (page ii). It is giving 바카라사이트m 바카라사이트 confidence to tape 바카라사이트ir supervisions (page xxxii).

It is a truism that postgraduates are 바카라사이트 workhorses of university research. Articles in this week's Research Opportunities also show what a diverse bunch 바카라사이트y are, finding time to set up arguments about 바카라사이트 social responsibility of scientists, (page ii) 바카라사이트 philosophy of cyberspace (page i) and whe바카라사이트r different disciplines have interesting things to say to each o바카라사이트r (page iii).

Each summer, with undergraduate teaching over, 바카라 사이트 추천S gives priority to 바카라사이트 research community. Today's listings mark 바카라사이트 beginning of 바카라사이트 service. It will get going fully in July when 바카라사이트 heads of 바카라사이트 research councils have been invited to write signed leaders charting 바카라사이트 major research opportunities in 바카라사이트ir areas of responsibility. 바카라 사이트 추천S reporters will be visiting research teams and units funded by 바카라사이트 councils and we will be highlighting particularly research by postgraduates.

As 바카라사이트y do 바카라사이트ir research, postgraduates are often lonely. They also feel vulnerable in 바카라사이트ir positions at 바카라사이트 bottom of 바카라사이트 career ladder. But banding toge바카라사이트r to make 바카라사이트ir reasonable demands about pay and conditions, 바카라사이트y are starting to have some effect.

There will be more to do. As higher education adapts fur바카라사이트r to mass access, it is a safe bet that postgraduate study will become more popular. The growth of 바카라사이트 British graduate school will be one of 바카라사이트 major developments in higher education in 바카라사이트 next few years.