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Health and Social Care, Student Designed Award – (M.Sc.)
Oxford Brookes University
Department of Social Work and Public Health
| Application Deadline: | as early as possible | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 1,004 - ≈ € 12,862 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Oxford / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | January, September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Oxford Brookes University
The innovative Student Designed Award (SDA) is part of Oxford Brookes University’s Open Award scheme.
The SDA is a multiprofessional course open to a very wide range of professionals and non-professionals who work in health or social care settings, including critical care practitioners, care home practitioners, complementary therapists, doctors, health care educators, health care technicians, midwives, nurses (all branches), occupational therapists, physiotherapists, practice managers, psychotherapists, radiographers and social workers.
The SDA is a flexible study option which allows you to build your own award. If you have been unable to find a course that meets your specific requirements, or you wish to plan a course that builds on your previous learning and meets your personal and professional needs, this may be the one for you. Your programme of study is individually negotiated, named by you and your academic adviser, and approved by the university. Depending on the amount of academic credit you build up, there are three possible awards: a postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma, or master's degree.
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Why Brookes?
* We have a large and dedicated building in Oxford (Marston Road) and a campus in Swindon (Ferndale), equipped with state-of-the-art classroom and clinical skills simulation suites and resources.
* We have our own osteopathic clinics: Mill Court in Headington, Oxford and at Ferndale Campus in Swindon, offering a full range of osteopathic treatments to students, staff, NHS staff and the general public.
* Our courses are open to a wide range of health and social care professionals providing highly-flexible continuing professional development (CPD) study opportunities with part-time, full-time and mixed-mode options (including opportunities for e-learning, blended and distance learning).
* We support multi and interprofessional learning and teaching, and many of our courses are either fully multiprofessional or offer excellent opportunities for shared learning.
* Our lecturers are experienced in their specialist practice areas and maintain excellent practice links with those areas locally or across the region.
* Many of our lecturers have reputations for excellence and have established links with colleagues, organisations and institutions at national and international levels.
* We have a strong research profile, with experienced researchers working in established areas of cancer care, children and families, drug and alcohol, physical rehabilitation and enablement, and interprofessional education and collaborative practice.
* Oxford Brookes is rated internationally excellent across a broad range of subjects in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). 70% of our research in Allied Health Professions and Studies was rated as being of international significance, of which 10% was rated as world-leading.
* Oxford Brookes is a student-centred institution that is fully committed to each individual achieving their potential. To support this, we offer a broad range of student support schemes to facilitate learning and development
* We have an excellent track record of high levels of student satisfaction, low student attrition rates and high employability.
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Course length
Full-time: MA/MSc: 12 months, PGDip: 12 months, PGCert: 6 to 12 months
Part-time: depends on the award sought and any credit already attained
The SDA’s distinctive course design gives you maximum flexibility and allows your learning to directly relate to your career and clinical interests. You can choose from a very wide range of existing modules in the health and social care portfolio and add academic credit for learning from projects or other workplace activities to build your individual programme. Prior learning from experience or accredited courses may also be included if it is relevant to your agreed objectives. For example, you may want to combine modules from our postgraduate course portfolio, for example Cancer and Palliative Care, Public Health, Management in Health and Social Care or Higher Professional Education and others. The options, if not quite limitless, are very extensive.
Your programme may therefore contain all or any of the following:
* credit gained from previous certificated courses of study or modules
* learning through experience
* taught modules that can be selected from a wide range of options
* work-based learning projects
* units studied at another institution.
When selecting the elements of your programme you will be guided by an academic adviser, to ensure you meet the aims you have identified. A programme of achieved credit and planned study must be coherent, in that all the parts must relate to each other and must be directly relevant to the title of the award sought. You will be asked to write a statement that justifies the combination of prior credit and the modules chosen.
Teaching, learning and assessment
The teaching, learning and assessment strategies are determined by the content of the planned programme. In the case of work-based learning or independent study, these are negotiated between you and your academic adviser/supervisor and, in the case of work-based learning projects, your employer.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
You will need to negotiate a programme of study, and to have this approved by the university, on admission to the programme. Initial enquiries should be made directly to the Programme Administrator.
English language requirements
Applicants whose first language is not English must demonstrate that their level of English is appropriate for study at postgraduate level. For this course we require a minimum of IELTS 6.5.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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