Rise in research students

June 11, 1999

Interim data suggests postgraduate students this year will outnumber the total for 1997-98. A snapshot of the student population taken in December 1998 by the Higher Education Statistics Agency recorded 48,903 full-time and sandwich postgraduate research students. This compares with the final 1997-98 figure of 48,314.

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