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How part-time PhD students view research culture

Universities may need to do more to integrate part-time students into their research culture, a survey suggests

September 19, 2013

Source: Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2013, Higher Education Academy

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More than a quarter of part-timers responding to the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey, published on 4?September, say they do not have frequent opportunities to discuss their research with peers.

This compares with 16?per cent among full-time students.

Part-timers are also less likely to feel that their faculty’s “research ambience” stimulates their work or that their department provides a good seminar programme.

The results could reflect that such students are more likely to be distance learners and less likely to spend time in their departments, the report says.

elizabeth.gibney@tsleducation.com

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