The Parent Student

Distance MBAs combine Russell Group learning with flexibility

This story in the Indy looks at the leading sector in postgraduate distance learning: the business teaching sector. More choice appears to be offered in postgraduate business qualifications than in any other subject, with distance MBAs offered by Russell Group institutions such as Liverpool, Durham and Warwick. The Independent profiles Parent Students who have completed such [...]

Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) results 2008

  The RAE, the comprehensive and long-awaited assessment of UK universities’ research departments, has been published. Cambridge has usurped Oxford to take the top post and the rest of the top ten is occupied by the London School of Economics, Imperial College, University College London, the University of Manchester, the University of Warwick, the University of [...]

Open University Research Degrees

The Open University has a research community based at its Walton Hall campus as well as a far reaching web of research networks worldwide. You can work towards the following awards: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctorate in Education (EdD), Master of Research (MRes) or Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and both full-time and part-time options are [...]

UK University rankings 2009

Below is the Guardian’s University ranking table for 2009 – a good way to get a general idea of the quality of the institution you are considering attending. Some institutions, however, excel in particular disciplines while other subjects drag down their ratings, so the subject rankings tend to give a better indication of a uni’s [...]

Postgraduate parents

Help for postgraduate parents - from choosing a Master's or a research degree, to coping with the workload once the course starts.

Distance learning or attendance course?

To be there or not to be there? That is the question. Should you choose a conventional attendance course or instead plump for a distance learning option? Distance courses Correspondence courses, online degrees, distance learning, call it what you will, the non-attendance study sector has burgeoned over the past decade or so to become one of the [...]