postgraduate

PAs are graduates - usually with a health or life sciences degree - who have undertaken two years of postgraduate training.

UG stands for undergraduate, but the whistleblower claimed to BBC News NI that some staff also felt under pressure over marks for postgraduate qualifications.

Student Lily Gershon, 22, co-editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, says the cuts are making her reconsider whether she wants to go on to do a postgraduate course at Durham.

Initially, the new campus will offer five postgraduate programmes which QUB said would be "tailored to the specific needs of the Indian economy".

The university said it has implemented a number of recommendations, including allocating dedicated staff and faculty resources — including a newly created director of postgraduate programs — to oversee the tracking of postgraduate fees and transactions.