AQW 37798/11-15 Written question to the Minister for Employment and Learning
To ask the Minister for Employment and Learning to detail the number of departmental funded PhD places available in each year since 2012.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 21 October 2014
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 21 October 2014
- Answer due by
- 5 November 2014
- Answered
- 5 November 201415 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Employment and Learning
- Priority question
- No
Answer
Since 2012, my Department has made available funding for up to the following numbers of PhD studentships at the Queen’s University Belfast and The University of Ulster:
Academic Year PhD Studentships
2012/13595
2013/14631
2014/15729
The universities can at their discretion commute some of these PhD studentships to students undertaking Masters Research degrees, although this is uncommon.