Postgraduate Study

Bridging the great divide: is it possible to cross from the Arts to Sciences?

Since 1959, and C. P. Snow’s infamous Rede lecture, there has been a queue of intellectuals determined to find a gulf between the two cultures in university education – the Arts and the Sciences.

Inside Postgraduate Study

Dig deep: The best ways to fund your course

Thursday, 10 February 2011

MBAs can open the door to high-flying careers – but they don’t come cheap, warns Michael Prest

On top of the world: You could be a globetrotter with geomatics

Thursday, 10 February 2011

A postgraduate qualification in geomatics could take you all over the world, from working in the Thames estuary to the furthest reaches of the Arctic. The subject is concerned with gathering and interpreting spatial information, and with the geographic makeup of the natural and built environments; more informally, it's "an unholy alliance of maths and geography", as James Kavanagh, director of land at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), puts it.

Postgrad Lives: ‘You get so much support from the university’

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Mark Cund, 39, is midway through a part-time MSc in automotive calibration and control at Birmingham City University.

Professor Rick Rylance: 'Researchers across all disciplines are highly sought-after by all businesses'

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Research Council's UK Champion for research careers

Postgrad Queries: Do I need a Masters to get an IT job? Are there any logistics qualifications?

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Q. I'm a first-year undergraduate in computer science, and am already wondering if this will be enough to get me a job in IT at the end. Is it usually necessary these days to have a Masters degree to go straight into a job? If so, is it better to go for a general IT Masters, or to specialise?

Will full-time study become an expensive luxury?

Thursday, 10 February 2011

The demand for flexible learning shows no signs of abating.

New year's resolution: get a master's degree

Thursday, 27 January 2011

For many postgraduates, the year starts now, says Steve McCormack

Professor John Board: 'Economics has a lot to say about the world'

Thursday, 20 January 2011

The new dean of Henley Business School talks to Michael Prest about the future of business education

An MBA culture elective is producing innovative ideas for the arts sector

Thursday, 20 January 2011

The NT Live screenings of Rory Kinnear's Hamlet in November and Derek Jacobi as King Lear on 3 February at a cinema near you trace their origins to the MBA programme at Cambridge Judge Business School.

Independent/Durham Business School MBA scholarships: High flyers spread their wings

Thursday, 20 January 2011

If MBA student Tim Forber was hoping for a quiet fortnight to study for impending exams, he'll have been disappointed. Nick Clegg, David Cameron, Ed Miliband and the BNP all came to Oldham in the coming days ahead of the by-election – and Forber is the senior police officer in charge.