Postgraduate Opportunities
Writtle College
Writtle College offers full and part-time University of Essex Postgraduate programmes in a range of subjects. Subjects include animal and equine science, business management, conservation management, design and horticulture. The College is set in its own 220 hectare estate with conservation areas, landscaped gardens, design studios, animal, equine and stud units, a farm and science centre.
The College offers the following postgraduate taught courses:
MSc Animal Biology and Welfare
MSc Animal Production and Nutrition
(Funding is available for these two MSc courses - please see separate adverts on PostgraduateStudentships.co.uk)
Continuing Professional Development
MA Business Management
Masters in Business Administration
Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma in Management Studies (PGCMS/PGDMS)
Postgraduate Certificate in Management Studies
Postgraduate Certificate in Management Studies (Veterinary Practice Management)
Postgraduate Certificate in Management Studies with English
Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies
MSc Conservation Management
MA Landscape Architecture - subject to approval
Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture
MA Garden Design
MSc Equine Science
MSc Human and Equine Sports Science
MSc/MA International Horticulture
MSc Horticulture (Crop Production)
MSc Postharvest Technology
MSc Landscape Management
For more information on all these courses, and to contact admissions staff and apply, please visit http://www.writtle.ac.uk//pge_MainDisplay.cfm?ID=226
Funding
The Alice Noakes Charitable Trust has provided four bursaries to support UK students wishing to study the MSc Animal Biology Welfare or MSc Animal Production and Nutrition courses at Writtle College (see separate advertisements on PostgraduateStudentships.co.uk). UK graduates must hold an honours degree at 2.2 or above in a related discipline. Applicants who have successfully secured an offer may apply for a bursary which provides full or partial funding of tuition fees. The bursaries will be awarded on a competitive basis and applications will be considered by a panel chaired by the Head of School. The Trust was established with an animal welfare focus in East Anglia. Therefore, the criteria for selection of the successful recipients will reflect this welfare and regional emphasis. The closing date for bursary applications is 18 July 2008. Successful applicants will be notified by 18 August 2008.
Funding for International Students
The College is eligible to nominate the best pg international student applications for a Marshall Papworth
award. International students must first apply and be accepted on the masters programme. Details of the best students are then forwarded on to the Marshall Papworth Trust who make the final selection from applications received from all elligible Universities and Colleges. Students must show both academic strength but also need to
demonstrate how they will influence rural development in their home countries and "use their knowledge for the benefit of their Countrymen". More information is available from:
http://www.eastofengland.org.uk/marshal_papworth.htm
General funding sources
For general sources of funding that may apply to this study opportunity, visit the page(s) below.
