Details: 15-60 months part 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: The Master's course is offered in partnership with the School of Chemistry. (read more)
Course venue: University of Manchester, M13 9PL
Details: 2-3 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: The course offers advanced study in polymers (plastics and rubbers) for science and engineering graduates in either full-time or part-time modes. (read more)
Course venue: London Metropolitan North Campus, N7 8DB
Details: 2-3 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: The course (Energy Institute, Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology approved) focuses on understanding the influences on the choice and use of materials offshore and how different materials can be selected to help overcome some of the problems. (read more)
Course venue: Cranfield University, MK43 0AL
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: 2009/10: Full Time: £3,500.
Course description: The programme comprises a series of modules, some running as Short Courses lasting a few days, whilst others are available via Distance Learning. (read more)
Course venue: Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
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: The Master's course is offered in partnership with the School of Chemistry. (read more)
Course venue: University of Manchester, M13 9PL
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 course offers advanced study in polymers (plastics and rubbers) for science and engineering graduates in either full-time or part-time modes. (read more)
Course venue: London Metropolitan North Campus, N7 8DB
Details: 1-2 years 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: The course (Energy Institute, Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology approved) focuses on understanding the influences on the choice and use of materials offshore and how different materials can be selected to help overcome some of the problems. (read more)
Course venue: Cranfield University, MK43 0AL
Details: 2 years (maximum) 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: This is a modular programme run by the Centre for Materials, Catalysis, and the Surface Science Research Centre and is specifically designed to be taken for continuing professional development purposes by people working in the chemical industry. (read more)
Course venue: University of Liverpool, L69 7ZX
Details: 3 years part time course.
Course fees: 2009/10: Full Time: £3,500.
Course description: The programme comprises a series of modules, some running as Short Courses lasting a few days, whilst others are available via Distance Learning. (read more)
Course venue: Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
Postgraduate reviews
Overall score
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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Musical Directors and Repetiteurs PgDip
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
I have been at Loughborough for 5 years and love the community feeling and the course was excellent and the friends I made was a priceless experience.
Study experience
Good professional lecturers who seem to genuinely care.
Facilities
Great library facilities, loads of computers and the sports facilities are excellent.
Postgraduate life
Lots! Media, Radio, TV, dance, hip hop, salsa etc.
Job prospects
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