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Chris_Crossley

Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 1797
Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:37 am Post subject: Re: Open University UK :: MA TESOL

Kent F. Kruhoeffer wrote:

I'd take a serious look at The Open University (UK) MA TESOL:

http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01E841_5_94

I have already signed up for E841 The Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages Worldwide. It lasts from February to October 2006 and costs 1,525 GBP if you live outside the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It is one of three modules that you must complete (at the rate of one per year) if you want to gain the MA in Education or MEd degree in Applied Linguistics. (You choose the degree title: it does not depend on the modules taken.) I have done two undergraduate courses in linguistics, too, so these are a kind of postgraduate follow-up.

I actually undertook 15 distance-learning undergraduate modules, eight of which had one-week-long residential schools at conventional universities during the summer months, with the O.U. from 1992 to 2001, so I know that the university offers really great quality courses. If possible, I want to study up to doctoral level, but that plan is not yet cast in stone.

I hope that the MEd degree will get me a well-paid job back home in the UK by about 2009, which is when my daughter will be old enough to start primary school since my wife and I mutually agree that she should have a British education. It certainly won't get me a better teaching job at my current school - some of my fellow "ordinary" teachers already have doctorates! (I suppose I could apply to be the principal! Very Happy

) By the time I return home, I should have accumulated nearly 8 years of TEFL experience in China (bar a summer school back in England), so that plus the master's degree had better be worth it!

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Open University [Accredited]
Walton Hall
Milton Keyes MK7 6AA
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (190) 865-3788
Fax: +44 (190) 865-3019
Website: www.open.ac.uk

Close, Kent, but no cigar. The O.U. is in Milton KEYNES (as in John Maynard Keynes, the English economist) and the code for the town is (1908) not (190), so the phone number is +44 (1908) 653788 and the fax number is +44 (1908) 653019. (Not that it makes any difference if you are outside the UK - just get the numbers right when dialling!)

Kent F. Kruhoeffer

Joined: 22 Jan 2003
Posts: 2129
Location: 中国

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:48 am Post subject:

^ Hi Chris Congratulations on deciding to continue your MA studies! PS: I copied the above contact info directly from the Middle States Commission website. Thanks for the correction --- and HAPPY studies !

Chris_Crossley

Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 1797
Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:29 am Post subject: Re: O.U. contact details

Kent F. Kruhoeffer wrote:

Hi Chris - Congratulations on deciding to continue your MA studies!

Thanks ever so much! Very Happy

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PS: I copied the above contact info directly from the Middle States Commission website. If you look carefully, you'll notice that they put the '8' within the main number itself, rather than within the code. Not sure if that would make a difference?

Only if you are dialling within the Milton Keynes (01908) area if you are already in the UK - the first "8" won't work! Then again, I think everyone in Milton Keynes knows about the OU (it's been there since 1969), and so are extremely unlikely to get the number wrong! Very Happy

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Anyway - thanks for the correction and HAPPY studies! Very Happy

Thanks again, Kent! I truly hope that everything will come right. I have a wife and a daughter (now 14 months). Whenever I have attended O.U. graduation ceremonies (two thus far) back in London, some pro-vice-chancellor (or some such high official) always asks graduates to give a big hand to their families for their support, since O.U. study requires buckets of commitment, and so it is harder for those with sons and daughters vying for their parents' attention while they are poring over the books. If all goes well, I should finish the degree by the fall of 2008, by which time my daughter will be about 4 1/2 years old. I can imagine how distracted I am going to be during my studies! Very Happy

Gordon

Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Posts: 5309
Location: Japan

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:30 am Post subject: Re: O.U. contact details

Chris_Crossley wrote:

Kent F. Kruhoeffer wrote:

Hi Chris - Congratulations on deciding to continue your MA studies!

Thanks ever so much! Very Happy

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Anyway - thanks for the correction and HAPPY studies! Very Happy

Chris, I know exactly what you mean. I think my masters is harder on my wife and kids than on me. When I graduate next year, I am going to print out a fancy looking honourary masters degree for my wife and go on a big holiday. Maybe get her to name the place (within reason).

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