Talk:postgraduate

RFC discussion: March 2015

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postgraduate

The adjective is defined as a noun. It’s either a noun or the wording can be improved. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 21:28, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

I've changed it to "of studies ..." but is it just attributive use of the noun? Dbfirs 09:27, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

"postgraduate studies" is not "studies of postgraduates", it's "studies that are after graduation". Although it's an incomparable adjective (which makes our standard trick of searching for "more postgraduate", "very postgraduate" difficult), I'd say it's still an adjective. Smurrayinchester (talk) 10:09, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I’ve marked the translation to be checked, just to be safe. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 12:54, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

• Are there studies that are themselves inherently postgraduate or do any studies undertaken by a postgraduate thereby become postgraduate? DCDuring TALK 13:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

In countries that follow the Bologna Process, a postgraduate module is (from a grading perspective) distinct from an undergraduate module. For example, when I was at university I took a couple of "postgraduate modules" during my undergraduate time, and a couple of "undergraduate modules" during my postgrad time. The distinction is simply whether or not a bachelors graduate would be expected to learn the topic in question. (For instance, "General Relativity" was a postgraduate module even though I took it as part of my Bachelors, because on the standard course you'd only take it as part of a Masters) Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)