Postgraduate Study
The hottest new writing degrees are in specialist non-fiction
It sounds like a piece of Orwellian doublespeak, but creative writing (non-fiction), which started in January at City University, is in fact the new Master's degree of choice for writers eager to document their lives, or the lives of others.
Inside Postgraduate Study
Distance learning is helping workers' careers – and their pockets, too
Thursday, 10 July 2008
In the competitive workplace where the curriculum vitae is king, ambitious workers are falling back in love with the Masters degree. Graduates who turned their backs on further study after their first degrees are returning to pick up new qualifications that they hope will give them the edge for promotion or help them find new markets for their talents.
Do teachers need to take Masters?
Thursday, 10 July 2008
The Government wants teachers to take Masters. A nice idea, but tricky to pull off, finds Geraldine Hackett
Postgraduate Queries: How do I learn about software for e-commerce? What's the best route into estate agency and property developing?
Thursday, 10 July 2008
Experience is the key to employability
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Students eager to gain a postgraduate qualification in business in the UK are, for the moment at least, spoilt for choice. Whether you’re after a Masters degree in marketing or a postgraduate diploma in e-commerce, the sheer number of universities offering these types of courses means that finding the right one should be relatively easy.
A recipe for success
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Gastronomes looking to twin their passion for food with full-scale general management training need look no further than the south coast for what ranks as one of the first in a new breed of specialist postgraduate degrees in eating and drinking based in the UK.
On the crest of a wave
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Kite surfing is a fast-growing extreme sport enjoyed by about 150,000 people worldwide. “I’ve developed a twin-tipped version that runs perfectly in both directions,” says Barney Townsend, 26. Like thousands of others, he has developed the business with the help of a Masters degree incorporating elements of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Leading Article: End of the road with Sallie Mae
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Postgraduates who took out loans with Sallie Mae, the big American company, are to be left in the lurch because the corporation has withdrawn from the British market, owing to the credit crunch. This is a serious blow to large numbers of students who were hoping to fund the remainder of their programmes with borrowed money. It has certainly been a shock to the doctoral student Victor Schonfeld, who tells the story of how he discovered the story of his vanishing loan purely by accident, and will almost certainly have to abandon his degree as a result. The failure to inform students of Sallie Mae's decision to pull out of Britain is one of the most deplorable aspects of the affair. Royal Holloway, Schonfeld's university, said it had other, more important matters, on its mind; Sallie Mae says it was told it didn't need to. Whatever the reason, one would have thought both the university and Sallie Mae had a moral, if not a legal duty, to tell students that their precious source of funding was to dry up.
Scholarship funding cuts have appalled academics and students alike
Thursday, 12 June 2008
The Government has announced that it is cutting the funding of both Commonwealth and Chevening scholarships
Postgraduate Lives: 'I love working in the lab – but it can be tough'
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Sarah Eshtan, MSc at the University of Sheffield
Calling time on the long PhD
Thursday, 8 May 2008
Students used to get as long as they needed to complete their PhDs. But now universities are imposing submission targets. Is this the end for the next generation of original thinkers?
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