Minister announces €3,000 increase from January in stipend paid to PhD students to a total of €22,000 per year and flags further increase
Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris: 'This, I think, is the largest increase in PhD stipends in many, many years. This is not the end of the story, far from it.' Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
However, the increase still leaves the payment below the recommended level of €25,000 proposed in an independent national review of State support for PhD researchers last May. The move will affect an estimated 3,000 PhD students funded by Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council , but will not have an impact on the estimated 10,000 PhD researchers in total across Ireland funded by higher-education institutions and other competitive funding agencies.
The move has been criticised by the Postgraduate Workers’ Organisation of Ireland, which has campaigned on the issue, and which said the increase did not go far enough.
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