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Costs of training and supervising postgraduate research students

Summary

This is a study of the full economic costs to higher education institutions associated with postgraduate research students. It is based on the methodology used in the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC).

Four main types of cost were identified and studied:

  • the time spent by supervisors, examiners and lecturers, on training and supervising research students
  • consumables
  • scholarships, bursaries and fees remission
  • indirect costs and estates costs. Indirect costs consist of central services (registry, finance, planning etc); the support time of academics; the cost of capital employed adjustment; and support costs - staff and non-staff - in academic departments.

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Report and Annexes B and C
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Table A Programme costs in case study institutions
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Annex A Survey and description of activities
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Impact of PGR student weightings (from Annex C section 3)
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Last updated 1 February 2005