Doctoral Training Centre
Doctoral Training Centres (
DTCs; also called
Centres for Doctoral Training or
Doctoral Training Partnerships) are centres for managing the
Research Council-funded
PhD degrees in the
United Kingdom. Typical UK PhD students take three years to complete their doctoral research under the guidance of an academic supervisor or small supervisory team and tend to be located within an existing research group. By contrast, each DTC involves a UK university (or a small number of universities) in delivering a four-year doctoral training programme to a significant number of PhD students organised into cohorts. Each Centre targets a specific area of research, and also emphasises transferable skills training. The model has been adopted by all seven Research Councils.
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