It totally varies depending on the project and your productivity levels. As a guide you should be looking at 15-20 hours a week.

As a student you don't pay council tax so that's one less thing for you to worry about!

I would imagine you would struggle to compete for oxbridge places with a 2.2 even if you have a distinction for your MSc.

You will be fine as long as you can justify why the methods have been used or have been omitted.

I think we are confused as well because this person appears to be not from the UK, so when they are saying 'supervisor', they don't mean the UK version of a supervisor, but more someone from their thesis advisory committee.

My understanding is that whatever you are including in the paper, whether it's a whole study or a bit of it, you write it as a sort of report, so the methods, results and discussion are all together. I think what you include depends on the nature of the article.

Probably some internal politics somewhere. Why did you choose to publish with that person and not your supervisors?

See this:
http://www.postgraduateforum.com/thread-39939/

and well done!

I think I said that having the opportunity to do a PhD indicates that someone has probably had a decent upbringing, meaning that there's many people who could do a PhD or have a great job but events in their life have meant that they haven't been able to fulfil their potential. I recognise that the reason I have achieved things in my life is because of the people I have been lucky to have in it - my parents, my family, teachers, managers, supervisors, friends, boyfriends.

I guess you think that I've never worked in retail, or as a cleaner, or as a waitress. Ok. I guess you think my PhD was handed to me on a plate. Ok. And apparently I put men off. Ok.

At no point have I said I think I am better than others because I have a PhD. All I have said is that I like to surround myself with intelligent people - whether that's family members, friends or boyfriends. Generally, someone with a degree and someone with a PhD is likely to be more intelligent than someone without. That's it.

Of course I have many intelligent friends who don't have a degree and I have some not so intelligent friends with a PhD.

It's not like I go round asking everyone I met for a list of their qualifications before I consider talking to them. If you read my previous posts, I said I like nice, honest, decent people that I can have an intelligent conversation with. I didn't say I want to exclusively surround myself with people with PhDs because I think they are the only people worthy of my time.

I'm talking about when someone is doing a PhD at a university or working at a university, they are surrounded by academics.

For people with degrees, it's the same in the UK, 50% of people these days go to university. But, there may be 50% of people under 30 with a degree but that isn't 50% of the population as whole and it's not evenly spread across the country. So, if think of my family and friends from home, the percentage with a degree is more like 20%.