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- noun Plural form of
postgraduate .
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Examples
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To see if they could not conform their curricula and various regulations so that postgraduates from the different universities would be accepted at once in other universities.
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In the UK as a whole, income from fees - including fees paid directly by students such as postgraduates and overseas students - makes up about 29% of universities 'total funding, which was £25. 4bn in 2008/09.
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And, while George Osborne's recent budget recognised the economic need to invest in innovation – with £100m pledged for leading research centres – there is still no system of support for postgraduates – the researchers of tomorrow.
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This conference presents papers from academics and postgraduates working in disciplines as diverse as Literature, Psychology, Philosophy, Anthropology, Film Studies, Palaeontology, Zoology, Theatre, and Theoretical Physics: on the Emergence of the Posthuman Subject.
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'The work of postgraduates is at the core of many science, technology, engineering and manufacturing departments and creates national capacity to explore emerging research themes.'
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The Higher Education Policy Institute analysed how universities had changed the subjects they offer undergraduates and postgraduates between 1996 and 2009.
Number of universities offering media studies degrees 'tripled in past 10 years' 2012
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The OU produces high-quality education at scale to more than 264,000 students – including more than 19,000 overseas and 16,000 postgraduates.
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Through sheer enthusiasm and force of personality, he helped to build a strong outreach team at Liverpool, involving undergraduates, postgraduates, members of the Liverpool University Maths Club, university staff and others.
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The Council for Industry and Higher Education told ministers in 2009 that it could not "stress too forcibly our concern at the critical shortage of graduates and postgraduates with science, technology, engineering and maths capabilities".
Job figures cast doubt on Whitehall's push for science degrees 2011
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Two years ago the Political Studies Association established a working group on diversity to analyse and act to address the paucity of people from Britain's ethnic minorities among politics postgraduates and staff.
Letters: Tackling institutionalised discrimination in our universities 2011
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