The learning and teaching structures are designed to allow postgraduate students (both locally domiciled and those who live some distance from the campus) to combine the attainment of higher academic credit with a busy professional lifestyle.
The programme underpins the development of clinical specialities together with the evaluation of the evidence base for established practice and the generic skills essential to maximise personal and practice development.
The educational aims are:

i. To provide innovative and relevant learning and teaching opportunities based on sound applied research and scholarship.
ii. To meet the diverse needs of a range of learners and employing organisations, within a knowledge economy, taking account of the value of social enterprise.
iii. To promote an understanding of service usersâ and carersâ perspectives, and to enable students to integrate these within the development of policy, practice and educational initiatives.
iv. To facilitate and engender independent life long learning, in line with University, Government and Professional Body objectives.
v. To expose students to worldwide perspectives on health and social care, thus enabling them to participate as global citizens influencing local, national and international health and social care agendas.
vi. To equip students with the knowledge and skills to embrace and promote professional leadership, allowing them to contribute meaningfully to the development and modernisation of health and social care delivery.