How are New Route PhDs returned on HESES?
New Route PhDs are four-year postgraduate courses offering a mixture of taught elements, training in professional skills, and a substantial research programme. As the timing and balance of these components varies among separate New Route programmes, we consider that for funding purposes students on these courses should be counted in the same way as those on the more traditional three-year PhDs. This would mean that full-time students on these programmes would count within our formula for teaching funding for the first year of their New Route PhD (returned as PGR HEFCE fundable in HESES), and then count within our formula for research funding for the second and third years of their New Route PhD (returned as HEFCE non fundable in HESES and funded through the Research Activity Survey). Students reported as being in their fourth year and beyond will not be counted in the HEFCE funding formulae.
