News and blog

  • Structural Changes in Doctoral Education

    The Working Group for the Sustainability of Organisational Structures for Doctoral Provision has launched a new survey to capture the diversity of the doctoral provision in UK and Irish institutions. 
    9 March 2015 

  • Executive Committee Nominations

    On Friday 20th March, the call for nominations to stand on the UKCGE Executive Committee will be published. 
    9 March 2015 

  • Members Anonymous February 2015

    Scheduled viva disrupted. 
    2 March 2015 

  • The Role of Publications and Other Artefacts in Submissions for the UK PhD

    The UKCGE report released today predicts steady growth of an ​‘integrated format’ towards a significant minority of PhD submissions. 
    12 February 2015 

  • The Impact of Doctoral Careers

    RCUK Report confirms the vital role of doctoral graduates within UK businesses 
    29 January 2015 

  • 2015 Annual Conference Launched

    The UK Council for Graduate Education is pleased to open the call for papers for the 2015 Annual Conference which takes place on the 2nd and 3rd of July in Glasgow. 
    14 January 2015 

  • Meeting the Needs of Part Time and Distance Learning Students

    The most recent statistics from HESA show that around 45% of Postgraduate students study on a part-time basis yet The Higher Education Funding Council for England has identified a ​“significant decline” in part-time postgraduate study, by 27% since 2010, and while the specifics of why this is the case are not yet clear, it could indicate that it has become more and more difficult to find both funding and time. 
    13 January 2015 

  • ICDDET2 Full Programme Published

    This week event organisers have published the full programme for the forthcoming 2nd International Conference on Developments in Doctoral Education and Training. 
    12 January 2015 

  • Working Group Recruits Sponsor

    UKCGE is delighted to announce that ThinkPostgrad Limited has agreed to sponsor the Postgraduate funding working group. 
    8 January 2015 

  • Job Opportunity with the John Innes Centre

    Job Opportunity; Director of the Norwich Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership and Chair of the Norwich Bioscience Institutes Graduate School 
    5 January 2015