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Message from the Chair Welcome to the website for the UK NewRoutePhD Consortium! The NewRoutePhD is a national initiative to provide PhD students with the highest quality of taught materials and practical experience alongside advanced research. This integrated approach offers students a learning environment in which to broaden and deepen subject knowledge and professional skills while providing the opportunity for interdisciplinary study to extend their expertise in new directions. This innovative and seamless scheme has the full support of the UK government, the Higher Education Funding Council of England and the British Council. It meets UK doctoral standards and the principles laid down by the Quality Assurance Agency of the UK, including normal quality assurance mechanisms such as assessment hurdles and the provision of external examiners. The consortium was launched in 2000 with support from the UK national research, quality and funding agencies. The first students started programmes in September 2001 and the first student graduated in 2004. There are now hundreds of NewRoutePhD students in 16 different universities, covering many different subject areas. I hope you will be able to participate in Consortium events, particularly the National Conference in London on June 7 2010. With best wishes Paul Seedhouse Dr Paul Seedhouse Chair, NewRoutePhD Consortium Professor of Educational and Applied Linguistics King George VI Building School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences Newcastle University Newcastle NE1 7RU UK Email:
Tel: (44) 191 222 8873 Webpage: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/paul.seedhouse |
