Dear List Members
Please find below a message from an SPA member commenting on the ESRC's new
1+3 system for postgraduate studentships.
I intend to raise this issue with the ESRC directly but would appreciate
any other comments from list members. Does this sound similar to your own
experience? Or have you had a more positive experience with the new system?
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>... am wondering whether our experience with the new funding system is
>being repeated
>elsewhere. Our number of applicants is down. Several of our most
>promising undergraduates, who in theory are interested in research
>degrees have been put off by the prospect of 4 years. If they could
>have appplied for only 1, with the option of applying for a further 3 at
>some future point, rather than immediately after their 1, then I
>suspect several would have been willing to do so, and imagine that
>some of those would in the course of that time have decided they
>wanted to continue. They have no doubt accumulated debts during
>their 3 ug years and a staged possibility might be more enticing to
>them. Is it worth raising this with the ESRC?
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Dr. Linda Bauld
Department of Social Policy
University of Glasgow
Lilybank House
Bute Gardens
GLASGOW G12 8RT
tel and fax: 0141 330 4352
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