Postgraduate Study

Postgrad Queries: Should I take an MBA or MSc? What's the best way into international relations?

I would like to change my career from veterinary science to something in the international relations field. I’m Portuguese and work as a vet in London. What steps do you recommend?

Inside Postgraduate Study

A Masters in radio production can thrust you straight into the front line of audio media

Thursday, 23 September 2010

There can't be many Masters courses that give you the chance to produce your own comedy or collaborate with Phill Jupitus on an online breakfast show. But that's what Mog McIntyre found himself doing after enrolling as a mature student on Bournemouth University's MA in radio production.

Time to fill the data gap: A central database is needed as applications and course fees rise

Thursday, 23 September 2010

It has been six months since a major Government review on postgraduate studies was published, and little has been done to fill what some officials describe as a "data vacuum" in the sector. Yet, with almost a quarter of students in the UK now studying at a postgraduate level, administrators say that this is the year in which the gap in statistics must start to be filled.

Postgraduate Lives: 'I saw faded blood on the doorstep'

Thursday, 23 September 2010

Matt Crowcombe, co-founder of an educational charity called SOS Africa, is doing a PhD in politics at Swansea University, focusing on the role of transitional justice in post-conflict African societies.

A prize-winning American poet is challenging the way international students are treated

Thursday, 23 September 2010

When Dante Micheaux, the award-winning American poet, rocked up in London last year at the age of 29 to undertake his PhD at UCL, he was shocked to discover how postgraduate and overseas students were treated. He had come from a Masters at New York University, which, like UCL, is a large, well-regarded university in a teeming multicultural city that markets itself as a global institution. He expected to find a lot of similarities. And, indeed, there are similarities. Both universities were founded at about the same time, NYU in 1831 and UCL in 1826. Both have large numbers of Nobel prize-winners as staff or former staff, and both do well in the Shanghai international league table of universities. NYU comes in at number 31 and UCL has a ranking of 21. But what bothered Micheaux was the relative neglect of postgraduates in the London institution.

Professor Rick Rylance: 'One of Britain's major resources is brainpower: it will help us drive prosperity'

Thursday, 23 September 2010

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Postgraduate Queries: Are there courses for a health-education job? How can I land a financial role?

Thursday, 23 September 2010

Q. I've been working as a nurse in a health centre for a few years and have become really interested in disease prevention and the promotion of healthy lifestyles. Are there any postgraduate courses that might take me into this work? I have a nursing degree.