U guys makes me squirm in shame...

:-(

Never.

My saved name is "Lyra"

From Lyra Belaqua of 'His Dark Materials' - the wonderful pre-teen, brave and cheerful and kind.

Yes, the verb must agree always with the subject.

In this case the subject is the instructions, no the man, and hence 'confirm'.

Another example : a group of girls *is* coming, not *are* coming.. for the subject is the group, not the girls.

Yes, the verb must agree always with the subject.

In this case the subject is the instructions, no the man, and hence 'confirm'.

Another example : a group of girls *is* coming, not *are* coming.. for the subject is the group, not the girls.

But also, there are those who do exceptionally well, so yes, perhaps merit should be given the highest importance when selecting, not the availability of funds.

I think it is true that international students are 'attractive' to unis for the money they bring in (well, usually bring in). They get state funding to research something relevnt to their country and are bound to return, or they have pot loads of money sometimes, but I suspect not enough to do a PhD. In any case an interntional student gets in £14000 a year for tuition fees, whereas a domestic gets in 1/4 of that, with differences across unis and subjects.

The result is often that some of these students cannot cope with the language/culture etc and sometimes fail miserably.

Natassia, yes, it is understndbly depressing if you are deprived of a seat in your home country bcos an international student with similr calibre and the higher fees can get in that place.

- Written by an impoverished international student who hasn't any funding and is earning her fees as she studies.

Best, Bug.

To reiterate all that KB said below.

======= Date Modified 12 Feb 2010 08:44:01 =======
Sneaks my 2 p - I'm already planning my own and absolutely will go for my own apps and funding rather than advertised posts..planning to stay on wiht current mentor, which she is happy with

I think KeenBean will come by as well to say similar - funding can be 'created' for new projects this way, which is what I and also I think KB have in mind.

am on there for long but havent checked in ever and dont quite know what its for

Wally that's a story of civic engagement! Rise, public, rise!

======= Date Modified 11 Feb 2010 07:42:15 =======
Hi KB - my sup is more involved in my writing than myself - actually my PhD is an empirical and theoretical response to a conceptual challenge she placed to our field in a research article 5 years ago. So in that sense she is *in* my thesis, for it's essentially a response to Prof X, 2006.

All our conversations on this are coming together in our cross generational paper which is very very theoretical. For the writing of my PhD she clarified at the outset that she wouldnt like to 'tread' on my PhD and I can see she wants single authore stuff as well from me, for all our project related writing (reports but eventual artiles, and now thinking of a book too!!) are all joint with her.

ANd oh she reads my drafts til version 23 was it the last time (!) and contributes to a ceaseless intellectual conversation at and after supervision. SHe even reads my abstracts that I submit for conerences and makes me rewrite even those!!!

Hmm, varies I think. I am in the social scinece, in the second year of my PhD. PhD related publication before a PhD is done is very unlikley in my dept and field but there are those who work on projects and get to be 2nd authors on research project papers.

I have one 9000 word piece in press right now, me as sole author. Based on my PhD. ANother, me as sole author, 8000 words, based on my PhD is under review. A third, joint with sup as first, written as a cross-generational reflexvie theoretical peice is in prep going tobe submitted to a very fancy journal (but this is supposed to be a dialogie between two generations, and we talk o me as the younger gen in the paper so in this paper I think its absolutely shared aiuthorship and Iinsisted she goes first on this)

For project wiritng,m she is alwys first although she'd offered once, but its her grant, her project and all, and we share the writing.

My phD, well I am writing my empirical chapters for particular journals from the outset so that I have all 3 empirical chapters under review at least by the time of viva. And they are all single.

But this is a little unusual (the continental model of a Phd rather than the UK model) but I'm having a go, so let's see

14.8 and agree with KC about the science bit, would be totally different if this was for arts or social scineces!

:-) Ah teek, the problem for me is that when I go point 5 to point 1, I am not being closed/not open, that effectively *is* me, unfortunately. Always been. So, what happens is that I accummulate a huge amount of teacher/professor liking/praise, a lot of peer admiration but that one aspect of me, hidden underneath this all (where I can be the most irrational, intensely emotional, impulsive person) is just invisible.

:-) Bug