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The Quality Assurance Agency for UK Higher Education (QAA)'s Characteristics Statement for master's degree qualifications provides an official description of the context and purposes of master's degrees and the expected attainment of a successful master's degree candidate. [2]
The Frameworks for Higher Education Qualifications of UK Degree-Awarding Bodies (FHEQ) for qualifications awarded by bodies across the United Kingdom with degree-awarding powers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Credit frameworks use the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme , where 1 credit = 10 hours of nominal learning.
Bachelor's degrees are at level 6 on the FHEQ in England, Wales and Northern Ireland; Scottish ordinary bachelor's degrees are at level 9 of the SCQF and honours bachelor's degrees at level 10. All UK bachelor's degrees are first cycle (end of cycle) qualifications in the Bologna Process.
Postgraduate degrees are not normally honours degrees and thus do not add "(Hons)". Some degrees may be offered as either integrated master's or postgraduate master's courses at different institutes, e.g. MEng and MArch. A few postgraduate degrees at Oxford are titled as bachelor's degrees. These are, nonetheless, master's level qualifications.
In the UK, many professional titles are 'chartered' such as Chartered Engineer or Chartered Physicist. Under the European professional qualification directives , holders of professional titles in one member state are entitled to recognition of their title in all other member states.
There are four forms of regulated profession in the UK, with respect to the European directives on professional qualifications: professions regulated by law or public authority; professions regulated by professional bodies incorporated by royal charter; professions regulated under Regulation 35; and the seven sectoral professions with harmonised training requirements across the European Union. [5]
In the UK, in order for a qualification to be recognised as part of one of the UK qualifications frameworks: the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF), the Credit and Qualifications Framework for Wales (CQFW) or the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) in England and Northern Ireland, it must be awarded by an awarding body that is recognised by one of the government-appointed ...
This is a list of master's degrees; many are offered as "tagged degrees" Master of Accountancy; Master of Advanced Study; Master of Agricultural Economics; Master of Applied Finance; Master of Applied Science; Master of Architecture; Master of Arts. Master of Arts in Liberal Studies; Master of Arts in Special Education; Master of Arts in ...