Students follow a four year programme where a significant portion of the work is structured, supported and assessed through modules which involve directed study and residential teaching.
Students also produce a final research thesis.
Our primary focus is on HE and we expect to attract most people from that area. However, we do not exclude people from FE, and indeed we have designed the programme so that we can all benefit from a certain breadth of participation and experience. But this is emphatically not a requirement, and we have a considerable number of course members from right across the range of academic and vocational fields. You should, however, be prepared to engage seriously with social science concepts and modes of thought. The programme's design depends heavily upon building a mutually supportive spirit among a group of people with overlapping professional and academic interests.