Alliance response to 1994 Group report on postgraduate provision
…postgraduate provision. Alliance universities awarded nearly 1,200 PhDs in 2007-08 in comparison to just over 3,000 from 1994 Group universities – with many delivered on a more flexible basis and in areas that are critical to the UK economy. “In terms of value for money of public investment in PhDs, on average Alliance universities award twice as many PhDs per funding council research allocation as either the 1994 Group or the Russell Group resea…