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British Funding Agencies Creating Standards for Research Supervisors
Volume 10, No. 2, March 2002
British funding agencies are taking steps to establish new
standards by 2003 for scientists who supervise research degrees to improve the
training of graduate students because those students have complained about poor
research supervision in British universities, according to Nature.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England, the agency
that distributes teaching and infrastructure funding to English universities,
expects to tie the new standards to the funding it provides to universities and
departments.
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, a
life-sciences funding agency, has announced a voluntary national training and
accreditation program for research supervisors that is not linked to funding.
The program assesses the qualifications of researchers to plan research projects
and monitors student progress.
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