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naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

If anyone is looking for a good Master programme there is one at FUNIBER.org. It takes two years and involves a thesis and is done by distance. They have one in TEFL and one in teaching Spanish.

EDIT: I take it back. It's not a good programme. They accuse people of plagarism and then have them pay to have their theses re-read. I fail twice, not becuase of plagarism, just because. Took 1.5 years to pass my thesis, another year to get my degree and now I have my degree, an they put your place of birth on it. And that info is wrong, so now , my degree isn't valid.

MELEE · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:48 am Post subject:

Just a note to those interested. Master degrees are not Master's degree, but a level between a North American BA and MA, like a post grad diploma, that are being developed in England. While most jobs in the world, probably won't know or care about the difference, there exsists the possiblity that some will.

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

I don't know. If it's two years and has a thesis, won't it be more of a Master's than Master? Does the title matter as much as the course content?

MELEE · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:02 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, in some cases the title matters more than the course content. I noticed that the one in foriegn language teaching was only six months, and Spanish teaching, was a year.

In this part of Mexico, the european MASTER has a bad rap. Sad

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

koshechka · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject: funiber

has anyone actually tried to get a masters from them? i got the information, but i can't decide whether it will be recognized once i finish. i don't understand how it could say masters and not be one.

thanks

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

http://www.funiber.org/esp/areas-de-conocimiento/formacion-profesorado/master-in-teaching-english-as-a-foreign-language/presentacion-del-programa.html

Here is the main link for the TEFL Master. More info about the programme is available on the right hand side.
Yes it is acredited, FUNIBER is an organisation of many universities. The MAster is a consortium between the university of Piura in Peru and the University of Leon (I think) in Spain.

These are real universities, I work in the one in Peru. FUNIBER Is a well respected organisation known throughout LA.

MELEE · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject:

I thought I'd clairfy my previous comments a bit more. In an effort to facilitate the movement of students and professionals in Europe, the EU through a series of agreements called the Bologna process. This is to clear up some problems that have been created by a system where in Scottland, you get a MA in much less time that a Russian student would get a BA. In Spain a Doctorate is 3 or 4 years after a Bachelor's degree (attractive to Mexicans who would have to study for 6 or 7 more years to get a Doctorate in Mexico).

According to Wikipedia, the Bologna process establishes the bachelor's as 3 years the Master as two years and the Doctorate as three years. Here in Mexico, where most bachelor's take 5 years, many see this as a "dumbing down" of higher education, because Europeans will recieve a Master degree in the same amount of time that Mexicans recieve a Bachelor's degree. And Doctors will have only studied for 8 years, when Mexican doctors may have studied for 11 years or more!

I'm not against this system, I'm all for making global movements of people easier. I think this is sort of an unstable time in the world of higher ed, while this process is taking place.

matttheboy · Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Posts: 854 Location: Valparaiso, Chile

In Scotland undergrad degrees are 4 years and you come out with an MA at the end. This is not the same as a normal MA-the degree is 4 years because the 1st year is a kind of make up due to the fact that scottish students leave school after doing their 'highers' at 17 whereas english/welsh/irish students leave at 18 after doing A-levels. Normal undergrad degrees in england are 3 years and you come out with a BA/Bsc

All MAs in england are 1 year-september/october-september/october

Doctors do 3 years undergrad and then it's another 5 years before they're fully qualified.

PHDs take as long as the person wants i think.

My girlfriend's 5 year degree at universidad de chile gave her a BA. I think it's the same length here in buenos aires.

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home