The Law Society offers 10 awards every year to fund trainees' course fees and contracts, but firms rarely offer paid work experience and there are few other paid opportunities available for aspiring social welfare lawyers.
Meanwhile, legal aid firms, many of which are unable to afford to fund trainees, are also said to be keen to get their share of the government's apprenticeship grant.
Because he works at a major center, Snyder has a lot of discretion to fund trainees in his group to do work they are interested in--although a project must, of course, fall within NIH guidelines if NIH money or infrastructure is used.
A young hedge-fund trainee is taken to the harbour.
For the poor countries, these include improving working conditions for health professionals, requiring publicly funded trainees to commit to a specified period of national service, and pursuing policies that emphasise the development of science and technology research.
NIH-funded trainees are more successful than nontrainees at achieving subsequent funding from the NIH.
The fact that Mr. McDonald touts a work-for-shelter policy -- the fund pays trainees up to $6.50 an hour -- puts him at odds with many homeless services providers, and so does the fact that trainees get evicted from the shelter if they break rules, like missing work assignments or using drugs.
If independent grant-making agencies could facilitate such training by funding the trainee independent of academia and industry, potential conflict of interest could be minimized even further.
Overall, there is strong and ongoing support for these postgraduate programs from the Ministry of Health, which continues to fund individual trainees, from senior hospital specialists who are pleased with the quality of the graduates and their positive impact on the local specialist workforce, and from the Master's graduates themselves who have expressed overall satisfaction with their training.
This study was funded by the Trainee's Start-Up Fund, Research Training Center at The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto.
Prior to the cuts, Coventry Law Centre had funded two trainees internally and two others with external money.
