The Student Room & Postgraduate Studentships Partner To Support Students Into Postgraduate Education

May 20, 2011 - PRLog -- The partnership comes about in the week that The Student Room publishes research that shows it is the lack of funding that is the main factor deterring students from studying at a postgraduate level.

The Student Room now hosts postgraduate funding opportunities provided by PostgraduateStudentship.co.uk. In turn PostgraduateStudentships.co.uk has incorporated The Student Room’s popular postgraduate forum, which receives over 200,000 views per month, into their own website.

Now students can access postgraduate funding information and discuss it with their peers on both sites. A tremendous resource for prospective postgrad students looking to inform their decisions.


Jamie O’Connell, Marketing Director, The Student Room said:

“We are always looking for ways to enhance the quality of the service we provide to the 3.9 million visitors we get each month. Our research shows that most students who turn down postgraduate courses do so because they are seen as too expensive and there is a lack of funding available, so we hope that this partnership will go some way to help students realise that funding is available and needn’t limit academic ambition. We look forward to working closely with the team at PostgraduateStudentships.co.uk which has developed a very strong reputation within the sector.”


Jane Penrose, Director, PostgraduateStudentships.co.uk said:

“We are delighted to have formed this prestigious partnership with The Student Room, which is clearly enormously influential and popular amongst students, providing them with such an effective voice and an excellent online community. We are therefore particularly pleased to be able to offer our own student visitors the opportunity to participate in The Student Room’s postgraduate forum directly from PostgraduateStudentships.co.uk, and in turn, to offer The Student Room’s  visitors direct live access to our ever changing postgraduate funding database. We are always aiming to provide something new for our visitors, and for the Universities that use us to promote their funding to a wide student audience, and we see this partnership as a very positive move forward.”

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About The Student Room
The world's largest student site with over 3.9 million visits per month.
Predominantly young people aged 14-26 who offer support and advice to each other on subjects ranging from education and careers to health, music and relationships.

The Student Room works closely with several government departments and is the major advertising platform for higher education in the UK. It offers powerful ad targeting solutions for graduate recruiters and youth brands. For more information and to get insight into student opinions and habits visit http://insight.thestudentroom.co.uk


About PostgraduateStudentships.co.uk
PostgraduateStudentships.co.uk was set up in November 2006, as the first dedicated site to bring together all types of funding specifically intended for postgraduates, from both Universities and charities. It has grown to become one of the foremost postgraduate portal sites, and its concentration on funding makes it particularly popular with students.