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Higher Professional Education – (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 Higher Professional Education course offered by Oxford Brookes is open to applicants who are currently practising in a health or social care setting within the UK. The course starts in September or January and is designed for a wide range of health and social care professionals who are involved in education, training or facilitation for all or part of their role.
It offers participants the opportunity to understand the emerging nature of professional education in health and social care, its context and their role within it. It aims to build knowledge and skills, and challenges the attitudes of those currently involved in higher professional education in the context of health and social care. It also aids the development of your knowledge, skills and expertise as an educational practitioner, curriculum developer and strategic planner in your chosen area.
The course will provide a framework for you to:
* appraise critically your role and that of others within health and social care education
* develop a greater depth of understanding of the nature of professional education
* develop your knowledge, skills and experience as practitioners, curriculum developers and/or strategic planners.
Successful completion of the PGCert in Higher Professional Education (HPE) will enable you to apply to undertake either a PGDip or an MSc in HPE or a PGDip or MSc through the Student Designed Award that combines an educational focus with another topic. The Student Designed Award’s innovative design offers a very diverse and flexible choice of modules, which gives you the opportunity to build a programme suited to your own requirements.
Why Brookes?
* We have a large and dedicated building in Oxford (Marston Road) and a campus in Swindon (Ferndale), Wiltshire 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.
Contents
Course length
Full-time: MSc: 12 months
Part-time: MSc: up to 3 years. For PGDip and PGCert, please contact the Programme Administrator.
The course’s taught modules explore a wide range of educational issues, including the nature of professional education, local, national and international factors impacting on curriculum development, and facilitating inter-professional learning and quality enhancement in education.
The practice-based modules provide a framework of learning outcomes. In these modules you will be encouraged to engage in educational activities at two institutions and you will receive support in doing this.
As the course progresses, increasing emphasis is placed on the support of learning through practice in order to ensure each course member feels confident in their role as an educator in the practice environment as well as in more formal classroom settings. This approach has proved effective in encouraging the development of creative and innovative facilitators of learning who have a strong sense of self-awareness and a commitment to personal development.
The final award depends upon the number of modules you take. A PGCert requires the successful completion of three modules and the PGDip requires the successful completion of six modules. The MSc requires the successful completion of nine modules, which must include Advanced Research Design and a Dissertation.
Nurses and midwives
Students who wish to meet the NMC standards to support learning and assessment in practice (NMC 2008) for teacher status will need to pass the compulsory modules Widening Perspectives through Educational Practice and Creating Frameworks for Learning.
Occupational therapists and physiotherapists
Students who wish to meet the APPLE and ACE standards for supporting students need to pass one of the following compulsory modules: Widening Perspectives through Educational Practice or Creating Frameworks for Learning.
All other health care professionals
Students taking the PGCert will need to take the compulsory module Creating Frameworks for Learning and can either choose to take the double module, Widening Perspectives through Educational Practice, or choose two single modules from the list of acceptable modules, including:
* Leadership in Health and Social Care
* Work-based Learning
* Independent Study
* Evidence-based Practice
Modules
* Creating Frameworks for Learning explores models of curricula, together with local, national and international policies and strategies, and the manner in which they impact on curriculum design, assessment, quality management and evaluation.
* Widening Perspectives through Educational Practice offers an intensive, practice-based opportunity to explore each of the following three strands in a student’s own place of work and also in another educational institution: * developing your own approach to teaching and learning in both clinical and more formal settings
* exploring the learner’s experience and gaining direct experience of curriculum design
* strategic planning in action.
For the PGDip you may choose two other relevant modules from across the postgraduate health and social care course portfolio.
Please note: as courses are reviewed regularly, the list of modules may vary from that shown here.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
You must:
* be a registered health or social care professional, with a registration acceptable to the relevant United Kingdom professional body
* have an honours degree or a professional qualification equivalent to a first degree, or be able to produce evidence of the ability to study at your proposed level of entry if requested
* have a minimum of two years' professional practice experience
* be employed or have access to a health care setting that will enable achievement of the learning outcomes, ie hold a post which includes a significant role as a teacher/facilitator in a health or social care setting. We recognise that the range of educational roles is wide and this may include formal and informal teaching of groups or facilitating the learning of individuals on a regular, ongoing basis.
English language requirements
If your first language is not English you must demonstrate that your level of English is appropriate for study at postgraduate level - IELTS 6.5-7.0 overall, or equivalent.
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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