Collaborative training

Around 90 organisations have Collaborative training accounts, which will run until the end of September 2009. Their successors, funded through a call in 2008, are Knowledge transfer accounts.

• Industrial Doctorate Centres

  These user-oriented Centres provide the same training environment and features as Centres for Doctoral Training whilst also incorporating a strong industrial focus.

• Collaborative Training Accounts

  To date, the main vehicle for funding collaborative postgraduate training in higher education institutions has been through collaborative training accounts.

• Industrial CASE

  Industrial CASE provides funding for PhD studentships where businesses take the lead in arranging projects with an academic partner of their choice.

• Engineering Doctorate

  Work-based alternative to traditional PhD. Students spend around 75% of their time working with a collaborating company.