Disadvantaged postgraduates: who are they and how can we help them?

By Tom Frostick. Policymakers need to identify which postgrads most need support, says Tom Frostick, who asks whether redirecting funding towards these students is a good way of going about it. The government has confirmed that funding allocated through the national scholarship programme (NSP) is to be "refocused" on disadvantaged postgraduates at the expense of disadvantaged undergraduates. Read more...