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Glynn Williams - Applicants

By Postgraduate editor
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04th June 2013

We're looking for the aptitude, really, to come and succeed, and engage with what's sometimes quite a tough program of study. We give our students a very intensive experience in the 12 months that they're here. The courses run from September through to a final dissertation submission, 12 months later, and there's a lot of work in that. We want to make sure that our students are supported through that process, but also that they've got the skills and abilities coming in.

In terms of where our students are coming from, they're coming from a variety of different academic backgrounds, and that can be anything from history through to politics, to biology. It doesn't matter. We will take those students and give them the basic knowledge within the subject that gets them up to speed at the start of the program.

So, they're coming with a range of skills. I think the most important thing is an engagement with the ethos of the department, and that willingness to engage with the big issues that effect the planning and property world.

If you'd asked that question in the department 10 years ago, we'd have said, "Local Authority planning in the UK, it's a key employer." That picture has changed. It's diversified, and it's really globalized quite dramatically over the last decade. We've got students going out into planning and property professions with a range of leading bodies, such as DTZ, such as ARAP. We've had a succession of students who've gone through internships with the United Nations Human Habitat. So, we've got students really that are increasingly looking at a global market in local planning and varied property professions.

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