Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: 2009/10: Full Time: £3,500
Course description: There is an increasing use in industry of computer technology in the field of chemistry and an increasing need for chemists to understand the technology these processes are based on. (read more)
Course venue: Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Not known.
Course description: This MSc course is designed to meet industry's requirements for students entering research or process development departments and to equip them with the appropriate tools and knowledge to enable them to make an immediate positive impact on the development of clean environmentally benign products and processes. (read more)
Course venue: University of York, YO10 5DD
Details: 45 weeks full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: Covers range of instrumental analytical techniques used in chemical and biological analysis including: DNA synthesis and sequencing, genetic fingerprinting, blood analysis, immunochemistry and detection of illicit substances. (read more)
Course venue: Robert Gordon University (The), AB10 1FR
Details: 2 years day/block release course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This programme is accredited by the Institute of Biomedical Science for fellowship. (read more)
Course venue: University of The West of England, BS16 1QY
Details: 2 - 5 years part time course.
Course fees: 2009/10: Full Time: £3,500
Course description: The programme provides training in pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism, drug synthesis, the principles of formulation, methods to identify potential drug targets and drug candidates, and methods to assess the biological activities of drug compounds. (read more)
Course venue: Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
Details: 60-90 weeks part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course venue: Robert Gordon University (The), AB10 1FR
Details: 30 weeks full time course.
Course fees: Please contact our Academic Registry.
Course description: The taught element encompasses both subject specific and transferable skills modules chosen to encompass such areas as: modern analytical techniques for chemistry, computational techniques (including the use of databases), molecular and cell biology of diseases, biomarkers of autoimmunity, critical evaluation of scientific literature, writing and presentational skills. (read more)
Course venue: Bangor University, LL57 2DG
Details: 2-5 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change and you are advised to check the current details with the course provider before enrolling on this course
Course description: Fundamental concepts and instrumentation. (read more)
Course venue: Birkbeck, University of London, WC1E 7HX
Details: 30-45 weeks full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course venue: Robert Gordon University (The), AB10 1FR
Details: 45-60 weeks part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course venue: Robert Gordon University (The), AB10 1FR
Details: 6-12 months full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change and you are advised to check the current details with the course provider.
Course description: This programme provide students with state-of-the-art expertise in environmentally friendly chemical process design, applicable to solving today's environmental and economic problems in the process industries. (read more)
Course venue: University of Manchester, M13 9PL
Details: 2 - 5 years part time course.
Course fees: See website for financial arrangements.
Course description: An increasing use in industry of computer technology in the field of chemistry means a need for chemists to understand the technology on which these processes are based on. (read more)
Course venue: Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
Details: 3 years part time course.
Course fees: Not known.
Course description: This MSc course is designed to meet industry's requirements for students entering research or process development departments and to equip them with the appropriate tools and knowledge to enable them to make an immediate positive impact on the development of clean environmentally benign products and processes. (read more)
Course venue: University of York, YO10 5DD
Details: 30 weeks full time course.
Course fees: First year home fees £3240 per Academic year.
Course description: This course provides recent graduates with training in current analytical techniques and scientific skills which are of value to a wide range of sectors including chemical, pharmaceutical, optoelectronics and Environmental Management. (read more)
Course venue: Bangor University, LL57 2DG
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change and you are advised to check the current details with the course provider before enrolling on this course.
Course description: The programme is delivered by a consortium of ten Universities and Institutes (NTEC Nuclear Education Training Consortium) ensuring that research and teaching expertise is available across the whole programme. (read more)
Course venue: University of Liverpool, L69 7ZX
Details: 18-60 months self study without attendance and self study without attendance (online) course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change and you are advised to check the current details with the course provider.
Course description: This programme provide students with state-of-the-art expertise in environmentally friendly chemical process design, applicable to solving today's environmental and economic problems in the process industries. (read more)
Course venue: Self Study (United Kingdom),
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: Chemical analysis plays a role in virtually all aspects of everyday life throughout the world. (read more)
Course venue: Kingston University London, KT1 2HX
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: Chemical analysis plays a role in virtually all aspects of everyday life throughout the world. (read more)
Course venue: Kingston University London, KT1 2HX
Details: 30 weeks full time course.
Course fees: To find out about up-to-date fee information please contact our Academic Registry.
Course description: This course provides new graduates with training in current laboratory techniques particularly applicable in research. (read more)
Course venue: Bangor University, LL57 2DG
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change and you are advised to check the current details with the course provider before enrolling on this course
Course description: Fundamental concepts and instrumentation. (read more)
Course venue: Birkbeck, University of London, WC1E 7HX
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I had completed an undergraduate Art History degree before enrolling in the masters in Fine and Decorative Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London. I found that the standard was significantly lower than what I had experienced at university in that the majority of students did not come from a strong background in art history. Many were communication majors, English, business or even science- basically any graduates who desired a "career change". In fact, in order to gain entry into the course you need 1) a degree (any kind) and 2) close to 20,000 pounds. As a result most lacked sound analytical and research skills.
Study experience
The lectures were very much targeted towards people who had no background of art history and could be compared with first year level university lectures. Contrary to all university masters degrees in art history however, there was no mandatory reading as the philosophy of the course is centered upon "object-based learning". However, this approach to art history when not supported by the study of an object's historical, aesthetic, cultural and political contexts is fairly useless. The course also claims to focus on techniques and materials, and while there is certainly value in learning from this perspective the course does not in the end teach you much more than how to identify a few different woods and that tempera paint dries at a faster rate than oil paint.
Facilities
The Institute is small and limited, not that well set up for students. The library was small and you had to rely on the Art Library at the V&A and the British Library for most of your research. There are not enough computers.
Postgraduate life
No postgraduate life really. Close friends keep in touch.
Job prospects
It claims to prepare you for auction house careers and other commercial art careers. Sotheby's auction house reserves (in 2008-09) 30 places for students (in all departments not just Fine and Decorative Art) to work as interns for 3 months, full time (including lots of overtime) and unpaid (transport and lunch expenses are not covered). This significantly narrows down the amount of people who are able to apply as only a minority can afford to live in London unpaid for 3 months with no guarantee of a job at the end (paid positions come up very seldom) and then if you are an international student (of which most in the course are) there is the additional problem of visas. While the course and the internship does certainly give you a decent chance to land yourself a paid full time job in the commercial art sector, the whole endeavour is expensive and quite frankly commercial art professionals, such as auction house experts, do not earn substantial amounts contrary to popular belief (you will earn more being an art history professor). Of the students in my class those who could afford to do the internship did, those who couldn't looked for months for paid work in the arts and most did not succeed (there are simply more people searching for jobs than there are jobs in the arts) and ended up in retail or administration in order to survive. Others simply changed career paths and pursued other goals.
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London Academy Of Music And Dramatic Art
Anon, November 2007Overall score
Study experience
Great course, allowed you to develop your skills and was really and inspiration.
Facilities
fabulous.
Postgraduate life
fabulous people.
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Overall score
Study experience
Excellent value for money, as the college I chose was FE there was government funding available and it cost me MUCH less than an MA would have done. I learned all I needed to get a job as a reporter so am very pleased.
Facilities
I had access to all I needed, tutors knowledgeable and enthusiastic.
Postgraduate life
Great atmosphere among students - some great friends made, I was sad to leave - though to go into the job I've always wanted softened the blow!
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