We included data on 10 549 postgraduate candidates from six reports (nine datasets).
GQW: Professor, Chief Physician, tutor of postgraduate candidates, and Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing China; Vice-chairman of the Infectious Diseases branch of the Chinese Medical Association and Vice-president of the Infectious Diseases Physicians branch of the Association of Chinese Medical Doctors.
Green Mountain will contribute a substantial portion of its net profits to create scholarships for postgraduate education candidates in the STEM subjects.
The British Medical Association has recommended, following a survey of medical royal colleges, that data collection on the demographic diversity of their postgraduate examination candidates should be improved; only eight of 18 colleges reported analysing pass rates in relation to characteristics such as sex, ethnicity, disability, religious faith, and sexual orientation.
It would, therefore, be important in designing such a system to understand whether more learning takes place at medical schools prescribing greater amounts of assessment, and if that in turn results in the acquisition of more 'medical capital' [ 16] that is later advantageous to candidates sitting postgraduate medical examinations.
Earlier this year, he was selected by Princeton as a strong candidate for a postgraduate fellowship based on his freshman year grades.
The candidate, who did postgraduate work at the University of Wisconsin and at the University of Strasbourg, speaks Spanish, French, English and Japanese.
Having spoken to a number of recruiting managers on this subject, their general preference is to appoint someone with experience in this or a related sector rather than someone who is fresh out of university with a masters; although they do recognise that someone with experience and a masters will probably have a head-start over a candidate with no postgraduate qualification.
So how can you use your postgrad degree to make you stand out? "A postgraduate qualification might give one candidate a specific edge over another," says 24-year-old Rachel Knight, an alumni relations officer who did an MA in European theatre at the University of Edinburgh.
She is currently a PhD candidate at the Postgraduate Program in Informatics of Federal University of Paraná UFPRR).
