Part VI - Costing Other activities

Section B: Minimum requirements

There are no minimum requirements in TRAC in this area.

Section C The training and supervision of post-graduate research (PGR) students

1. This activity is described in Annex 6 (definitions – PGRs).
2. Under annual TRAC the costs of supervising and training PGR students are identified as a separate research sponsor type under PF Research.
3. When charge-out rates are calculated they take into account PGRs’ use of and need for these costs (through the inclusion of weighted FTEs in the denominator).
4. It is not a requirement under TRAC fEC to cost PGR activity when preparing an application for funding a student as part of a research project. However, this is good practice. The various costs to be included when costing a PGR student are described in Part V (supervising PGRs). A project studentship has been costed in the examples of a project costing form shown in Annex 19.
5. A report of a study of the costs of supervising and training PGR students is available from HEFCE (see Annex 1).
   

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