Cohort training keeps UK ahead

Professor David Bogle, Head of the UCL Graduate School and Chair of the League of European Research Universities Doctoral Studies Community, welcomes the support for more Centres for Doctoral Training announced in the UK Budget. The announcement in the budget of funds for more Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT) is welcome news. It is good to see doctoral training getting the high profile it deserves - as the supplier of trained researchers who help drive innovation. Research-intensive universities such as UCL seek to train creative, critical, autonomous, intellectual risk-takers who push back the boundaries of frontier research and take their research skills into society. UCL has had considerable success with winning bids for CDTs and now have a number funded by Research Councils and the Wellcome Trust. In fact the first one was the Neuroscience PhD Programme funded by the Wellcome Trust, launched in 1996. We are now working towards many of our doctoral programmes run as cohorts in this way.
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