Special courses

Specialized training programs for further education college provides a wide range of professions - only mention, for example, accounting and banking, insurance, printing, textile manufacturing. Species of professional qualifications set such that they are difficult to classify. However, it should be understood that mastering one skill after another over time allows the owner to apply for membership in one or another professional association whose membership is often provided by the delivery of special examinations and professional awards. Held in a professional association - honorable and prestigious. To learn the necessary qualifications for representatives of different professions, as well as the professional qualifications to be gained at all levels of the education system, refer to the handbook "British Qualifications".

Tuition payment

Each college sets its own prices, but the average for 2000/2001 academic year pay college of further education will be 3,700 pounds. To refine the data, please contact the selected college or consult the British Council.

Academic course on the basis of higher education for the degree of Master and Doctor of Philosophy (post-diploma training / postgraduate education, PG-course, PhD-course)

Recognized worldwide, the courses provide training for a very high level and give the possibility of a serious research work. Selection of subjects is very large - from rare to the most common, such as law, medicine or engineering science. After receiving his degree first degree in other countries, many come to the UK especially for the so-called "post-graduate" education.

Historically, the structure of the education system in the UK allows British universities with a high degree of autonomy to shape the curricula of post-graduate training. Compliance with university-wide uniform standards of practice provided the invitation of independent examiners, however, training programs, say, literary criticism, can vary greatly in different universities from one another.

At the level of post-graduate training is practiced two basic types of courses: Theoretical and Research.

Distance education in the uk

You might not occur to seriously consider distance education as a way of obtaining a degree or higher professional qualifications. However, this form of education is becoming more popular and being progressive and the most readily available, is growing rapidly. Distance learning programs offer an effective, cost-effective and convenient method of increasing the level of education.

At the core of distance education programs based on the principle of independence. Some courses (eg part-time program at the University of London) allow students to build learning on your own. Training programs of other higher education institutions, such as the Open University, flexible and well structured. Typically, students take home, relying on a number of specially designed educational packages. Help the teacher carried out by regular or electronic mail. In order to begin to apply distance education and other means of communication: television, video, Internet. Not all, however, the course is ready to obtain qualifications that meet national and international standards, so it is necessary to find out whether you have obtained the qualification is recognized in your country. Some correspondence schools still require at least a brief training at a university or other educational center of the UK.

More than 50 universities offer distance learning programs of post-graduate training. The greatest demand is for commerce courses, law, natural sciences and engineering, and medicine. The British Council, you will be able to obtain the necessary information of education correspondence education system, curricula, duration of study, teaching methods and the size of the payment. What sways post-graduate courses of study, admission requirements in different educational institutions are different, but as a rule, requires an academic degree of the first stage (bachelor) or its equivalent.

You need to check whether this distance learning course accredited by the Council for Quality Control of Open and Distance Education (ODLQC - Open Distance Learning Quality Council). The list of accredited schools by the Board, offering correspondence courses (indicating studied subjects there), can be obtained from the British Council offices.

College distance education

Distance University of London program provides high standards of training. There are undergraduate and post-graduate courses. The diploma can be obtained for at least three years, maximum - six. Postgraduate training lasts for no less than two and not more than five years.

University of London does not offer a clearly defined program. The system of correspondence or advice, unlike the Open University, is not practiced. Taking advantage of educational materials, the students organize their studies at their own discretion. Some are preparing for the exam only on their own, while others stick to educational programs developed by the University of London and other colleges and universities. More information about this can be found in the University of London correspondence program.

National College of Further Education offers more than 150 courses leading to a degree, "A-levels", secondary and vocational education. These courses are popular among foreign students. To act on them at any time; Individual advice is for the entire study period.

The Open University offers distance learning courses for the MBA program for international students. Founded in 1969, the Open University at the moment - the UK's largest university, where both trained about 150 thousand students. He is recognized worldwide for its high level of training, the effectiveness of distance education methods.

Distance learning courses at other universities.

In earlier times, distance learning courses are offered by a few schools. Today, this form of training is practiced by many universities, providing training to obtain the qualification of advanced level. For the most part, to learn from these courses are students from any country, although some are only available to students of certain foreign schools, which in this respect there is an agreement.

Distance learning is also requested to leading educational institutions of the system of further and higher education, as well as professional associations. Some have developed training packages for home schooling. Directory "Open Learning Directory" provides detailed information about the educational institutions and programs they offer. Rules of submission of application forms is necessary to specify in each institution. This is easily done using the Internet system