Postgraduate Study

Hooked: Clare Cubberley works in a restaurant to make ends meet

Degrees on the menu: Meet the students signing up for free courses

With universities offering discounts and even fee-waivers, students are choosing to enrol for a Masters rather than look for a job.

Inside Postgraduate Study

Can Royal Holloway's new masters degree raise history from the dead?

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Question: "What do you say to a history graduate?" Answer: "A Big Mac and fries, please." In their franker moments, history dons will admit there is more than a grain of truth in the joke. The subject has long been more popular among students than employers. But Royal Holloway, University of London thinks it has an antidote: a Masters degree in public history, which has just started its first year.

Postgrad Lives: 'I love pursuing knowledge for its own sake'

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Ben Knowles, 25, has just begun studying for a one-year MA in modern British history at The University of Manchester, with a special interest in using film archives as a source of research.

Postgrad Queries: How do I get into fashion? Where can I study mobile phones?

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Martine Storey: 'If your CV is sparse, you need to work on what you have to offer'

Thursday, 15 October 2009

The tough economic climate is causing many university students to consider embarking on further study as a way of improving their job prospects. In a survey we are conducting of our own students, we have found so far that 46 per cent say that the recession has made them more likely to think about postgraduate study.

Screenwriting masters: How to write for a soap

Thursday, 15 October 2009

Creating stories and dialogue for TV shows (and mayors) is a real possibility if you take a course in screenwriting

Experiment in green energy: Abu Dhabi is the unlikely home of an ambitious $1.2bn laboratory that focuses on sustainability

Thursday, 17 September 2009

Fancy doing a Masters with your course fees paid, accommodation provided and all in a climate with guaranteed sun, year round? Then why not apply to be in the second wave of students at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, a new postgraduate institution in Abu Dhabi, which specialises in renewable and sustainable technologies, sited in what's billed as the world's first sustainable city?

Study in hostilities: A novel MA is pulling in the students by combining intellectual learning with fine dining and prominent speakers

Thursday, 17 September 2009

If you want to take a degree which combines tales of derring-do, fine dining and meeting some of the country's most distinguished generals and academics, the University of Buckingham has the one for you. This month sees the private university launch an MA in military history. It is a canny move that taps into the huge and growing interest in a once unfashionable subject and into a restless willingness to pay to pursue intellectual interests.