Postgraduate study in the Higher Education sector

In the current climate of uncertainty facing the UK's higher education sector as a whole, little focus has been placed on how funding of universities affects postgraduate study, from both a student and a university perspective. Since this section of the website is designed to provide prospective postgraduate students with information concerning what it is like to continue studying after a first degree, it seems pertinent to widen the scope of this diary slightly to incorporate the higher education sector and the issues affecting it — and thus postgraduate students and study — as a whole.

To start off the new category, this article (from The Independent's graduate options page) acts as a good introduction to some of the issues affecting postgraduate admission and retention. Who says the undergraduates should get all the press?