The University of Cambridge is facing a potential loss of talent due to significant drops in PhD funding, warns Vice-Chancellor Prof. Deborah Prentice. She underscores the vital role PhD students play in the university's research and innovation landscape. Despite recent government partnerships aimed at boosting economic growth, the decline in funding from research councils poses a risk not only to Cambridge but to the broader knowledge economy, as most PhD graduates do not remain in academia.
"PhDs are the lifeblood of so much of what we do here, they’re critical to our education mission...They are the genesis of many a startup company and we’ve got to be able to fund them."
"One of my chief concerns for the future was the decline in PhD funding, which had been flagged during talks with the university's six academic schools and was my number one priority."
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