Postgraduate Study

Fancy a lifetime of imaginative work? Try the animation industry...

The diversity of the animation industry is reflected in the wide range of courses available to postgraduate students. Options range from traditional drawing-focused MA programmes to highly technical MSc options looking at game-engine design, and 3D computer modelling.

Inside Postgraduate Study

Teaching English overseas: Graduates with a foreign language have a huge edge in the job market

Thursday, 14 April 2011

There are pros and cons about being a native speaker of English. One advantage, of course, is the ease with which English speakers can move around the world, on holiday or on business. But a disadvantage is that it breeds laziness. Far too many of us Brits, either consciously or unconsciously, don't really bother with learning a foreign language.

Professor Rick Rylance: 'A fellowship can change your career'

Thursday, 14 April 2011

Research Councils UK, Champion for research careers

Substance and style: The fashion courses that are a cut above

Thursday, 14 April 2011

Michael Prest meets the business schools who are queuing up to offer a range of tailored qualifications

Postgrad Lives: 'Our professors have invited some great speakers'

Thursday, 14 April 2011

Deyan Mihov, 24, is about to start the third term of a one-year MSc in investment management at Cass Business School, part of City University in London. Before starting at Cass, and after finishing school in Bulgaria, he did a Bachelors degree, in business administration, at The Hague University in the Netherlands, which included a semester at the California Institute of Finance.

Teaching the right brain to manage the left brain

Thursday, 10 March 2011

Although the predicted cuts in public sector funding are yet to translate into substantial job losses, the UK government is already searching for ways that the private sector can plug the employment gap. A postgraduate qualification in cultural management is about more than learning how to run a theatre or “manage creatives”.

Postgrad Lives: ‘You get to put your own spin on every area’

Thursday, 10 March 2011

Liam Maloney, 26, is nearing the end of a part time MSc in music and creative industries management at Bolton University.

Postgrad Queries: How can I become a further education teacher? Should I quit my medical degree?

Thursday, 10 March 2011

Q. Is there a postgraduate teaching qualification I can apply for that will prepare me to teach in the FE sector? I don’t think children and younger teenagers are really my cup of tea, but I am attracted to teaching as a career. I'm 24 and have a degree in geography.

Professor Rick Rylance: 'Many blue-chip companies demand precisely those skills nurtured by science PhDs’

Thursday, 10 March 2011

Research Council's UK Champion for research careers

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.