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Postgraduate Education

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way on the specific point of the research councils. Will he note the comments by Research Councils UK in 2007—the Minister laughs, but I do not think it would change its view now—when it argued:"““There is a critical need to grow postgraduate research…in the UK in order to counter the demographic 'time bomb' of an ageing population of academics in some disciplines””" and that without"““a strategy to address this, there will be serious implications for future retirement and replacement needs.””" There remains a concern that there is no strategy.