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A master's degree in the United Kingdom (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges in most cases upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.
A second edition of the Scottish FHEQ was issued in June 2014, doing away with the separate labelling of levels in higher education and simply adopting the SCQF numbering, [23] and a third edition of both, united into one document as The Frameworks for Higher Education Qualifications of UK Degree-Awarding Bodies, was published in November 2014 ...
All UK bachelor's degrees are first cycle (end of cycle) qualifications in the Bologna Process. Some awards titled bachelor's for historical reasons are actually master's-level degrees, e.g. Oxford's Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil). Conversely, the Scottish MA is actually a bachelor's degree which has retained its historical title.
The UK does not operate an accreditation system in the way it is understood in the US, i.e. a university (or other institute of higher education) cannot be "accredited" or "unaccredited". Instead there is a system of quality assurance, with reviews carried out by a government-appointed agency, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education ...
The student body is primarily international, with large populations from the Middle East, USA, South Asia and Eastern Europe. The college offers a wide choice of majors in management, media, international relations, politics, psychology and the liberal arts. The college brings the Liberal Arts curriculum of American higher education to the UK ...
This is a list of colleges in the United Kingdom offering higher education courses. Many of the colleges below are "listed bodies" that are authorised to offer courses leading to a degree from a UK university or other body with degree-awarding powers. [ 1 ]
The charitable objectives of the organisation are: To improve and enhance the standards of independent further and higher educational institutions by the establishment of a system of accreditation of such institutions and bodies administering schemes for such institutions and by the provision of an advisory and consultancy service in the field of independent further and higher education;
The undergraduate colleges were founded between 1964 (when the university was established) and 1974, with Graduate College being added in 1992. All students and staff at Lancaster are college members. [12] Colleges are independent of university education, instead providing on-campus accommodation, social events and sporting teams. [13]