Sentence examples for level of stipend from inspiring English sources

According to Alison Webber, policy support officer at the Natural Environmental Research Council, NERC will allow up to 4 months paid maternity leave for female research students, without the level of stipend being abated.

There is a wide variation in the level of stipend, depending on which body a student is funded by, ranging from 80,000 to 160,000 pts (about 480 to 950 euros) per month.

"The best people to judge the appropriate level of stipend and time [to complete a Ph.D.] are the supervisor and the university," says David Clark, director of engineering and science at EPSRC, who heads the proposal consultation.

Currently, NIH is engaged in an effort to increase the starting level of stipends by 10% each year until they reach a goal of $45,000.

And in recent years there has also been growing concern in the scientific community that the best undergraduates are being put off continuing into Ph.D. study because of mounting undergraduate debts and the low level of stipends.

Concerns include the extended length of the postdoctoral period; the level of stipends or salaries and benefits paid; whether postdocs will be able to succeed on the academic track, or whether other career options--full-time teaching, science writing, science administration and peer review, science policy, industry--are viable and ought to be considered.

A few scholarships are available (see sidebar), although there are only enough for about 13% of postgraduates (both master's and PhD students), and the level of the stipend is not nearly enough to live on.

The level of the stipend itself was criticised by the recipients as no longer being in line with the cost of living in many European cities and therefore their stay at the host institution was shorter.

Another problem is the very low level of Ph.D. stipends, which are lower than the wages of most people with a high school education.

In addition, most programs have reduced the stipend from the GK 12 level of funding ($30,000) to one that more closely aligns with university research or teaching assistantships.

Despite the low level of state support, not only in terms of stipends but also the standard of laboratory and library equipment available, Ph.D. study is extremely popular in Slovakia.