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The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) is undertaking a series of investigative projects to underpin efforts to ensure the continued success and sustainability of the UK's postgraduate higher education (HE) sector including postgraduate research. Knowledge of how postgraduate research students (PGRs) are recruited, selected and supported, and the contributions they make to the research base, is critical in understanding how the PGR market operates. In comparison with recruitment at undergraduate (UG) or taught postgraduate (PGT) level, relatively little attention has been given to how the PGR market operates or potential market interventions to optimise it. This research aimed to enrich understanding of the transition to PGR study, in order to illuminate both how it works (attraction, selection and recruitment) and why institutions engage in it.

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