Gordon Brown was younger when he completed his PhD with 21.

Not really a positive as regards doing one early then.

computing/social sciences / media studies/marketing but my project touches base on socio-economics

I bet you cover some ground with your reading then.

103. Just feel it at present.

What are you're studies in Pea? Just wondering. I didn't think it was business.

A chapin my Dept, very well known Prof. in his field was telling me he gets 300 [THREE HUNDRED] emails a day. He doesn't take kindly to speculative ones, which he considers are a waste of his time.

'Is it true that they get their funding reduced in subsequent years, if the money is not all spent?'t
Yes I believe it is, but I still wouldn't start mentally spending it just yet. At Lancaster [at least in my Dept.] thats would be a non-starter, I know someone in a similar situation. Funding apps have to be in before courses begin. Maybe different in your situation.

Probably.

http://www.findaphd.com/students/funding.asp

I'm merely trying to demostrate to you that not everythings wonderful in the garden elsewhere too. It appears to be very swings and roundabouts as regards geographical funding inequalities.

I'm just finding it quite ironic that 'we' [the royal UK 'we' here] are being taken to task by a Dutchman over the state of the UK funding research eligibility. Didn't someone from Holland post on here quite recently that they were excluded from PhD Research funding because at 33 they were too old?

As a rule I'm not one for getting personal in 14 months of coming on here. I just resent being taken to task over something that is obviously not the case.

Here’s how the exchange worked...as you appear to need an explanation.

Stu said....'So the message to you overseas students wanting funding- if you get it, be very grateful, if you don't, then don't complain, either pay it yourself or stay the hell out of our country'

I said...

'At this point I'm very tempted to enquire as to whether anyone will be voting locally for the BNP today [oh I just did]'

I was implying that Stu was somewhat right-wing as regards his political outlook. UNDERSTAND? If anything it’s the exact opposite to your inference. As I said you appear to have 'jumped on' the word BNP, and have not fully undertood [at all really] the context in which I have used it.

Whether you are indeed 'a bit thick' I will leave other to judge.

I was VERY OBVIOUSLY JOKING. Read the posts again. It isn't hard at all [unless you are a bit thick] to see that I was.

I was [very obviously] having a light hearted swipe at Stu, as rgards his pervious post. You are a PhD student as opposed to a GCSE student? I'm just wondering if I was a tad too subtle for you as regards my humour. Somewhat sad that you have to twist an obvious attamept at humour to suit some personal agenda.

What has CULTURE to do with this argument? If aything the UK and Holland are quite close in that respect. Perhaps if you feel the need to protest at some injustice as regards that, you should find one first.

What job exactly do you want?