ABSTRACT
A markedly higher proportion of overseas than of home students hoped for teaching posts in universities, perhaps because those graduates who are sufficiently outstanding to be able to go overseas for graduate study are likely also to be heading towards a career in scholarship. There are two aspects of the aims of university teachers which need to be looked at: why they want to recruit graduate students, and especially research students, to their departments, and the purpose, as they see it, of the graduate studies that they are organizing and supervising. The aims of the staff teaching advanced courses are as diverse as the courses themselves, and are generally narrower. Most of the staff and students, too, regard postgraduate research chiefly as a preliminary to an academic career. Some, at least in science departments, see an alternative purpose of graduate study in the preparation of students for a career in research of the more academic kind.
