Fourteen doctoral training partnerships for the biosciences have been unveiled, reports the Times Higher Education. Speaking at the University of Reading today, universities and science minister David Willetts announced the names of the partnerships chosen as training centres by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The doctoral training partnerships (DTPs), involving 44 research organizations, will share £67 million over the next three years to train PhD students and develop biosciences more generally. The training clusters replace the council’s existing Quota Doctoral Training Grant scheme, which awards studentship funding to 89 departments or faculties at 45 universities.
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