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Keynote Sessions
Prof Gerald Hammond, Associate Vice President for Graduate Education at The University of Manchester framed the issue of excellence in research by making comparisons to US, Japan and Europe. Gerald outlined how the newly united University of Manchester was approaching the issue of competing in a global research market. He suggested that ‘size’ and ‘resource’ would be the catch words for academic research in the 21st century. He continued to describe how although The University of Manchester has both size and resource there are many research areas that would benefit from a united ‘North West universities’ approach, and The University of Manchester would hope to be integrally involved with such an approach.
Dr Martin McCauley, Director of the UK Higher Education European Social Fund ( ESF) is based at Liverpool John Moores University and the department assesses all ESF applications from Higher Education Institutions.
Prof Chris Park, Director of Lancaster University Graduate School summarised the context of postgraduate skills training and described how HEFCE, QAA and the RCUK are driving the agenda forward with the Code of Practice and changes to funding. He considered how issues of mode of study, new-route doctoral degrees and the potential development a 2-tier (RC vs. non-RC) system will effect the attraction and retention of researchers. Chris described how the impact of increased postgraduate skills training must be measured and suggested how this might be approached.
Prof Chris Park is chairing the RCUK working party which arose from the January 2005 UK GRAD Roberts forum to look at key performance indicators measuring the effectiveness of postgraduate skills development.
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