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naturegirl321
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 Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:19 am Post subject: Affordable distance MA programmes |
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| in International Studies. I realise that many go through Australian unis, but they're a bit expensive for me. Any one know of a reputable uni that not super expensive for some one who's on a TEFL salary? |
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Gordon
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:30 am Post subject: |
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| What is expensive to you? I have seen them for $8-12,000 Australian, about 6-9K US. |
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naturegirl321
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Seeing that the typical salary here is about 700USD a month, I guess I'm looking for something that I can afford on that kind of salary. |
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ls650
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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I feel your pain, naturegirl321.  Gordon quotes $6000 US for an MA at an Aussie uni, but the Aus unis' prices have climbed a LOT in the last few years and I doubt you'll find anything even close to that price now.
Try taking a look at www.degreeinfo.com - that site has a good forum on distance degrees and a lot of info in its search engine. |
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Gordon
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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| ls650 wrote: |
I feel your pain, naturegirl321. Gordon quotes $6000 US for an MA at an Aussie uni, but the Aus unis' prices have climbed a LOT in the last few years and I doubt you'll find anything even close to that price now.
Try taking a look at www.degreeinfo.com - that site has a good forum on distance degrees and a lot of info in its search engine. |
Actually, I believe that is current. Aussie degrees have gone up for AUSTRALIANS the past few years, not for int'l students. The cheapest place I saw was the University of Tasmania and it was $8,000 AUS. I didn't think much of the program from what I read online, but it is cheap.
Naturegirl, what do you think you will find with that salary? You will have to either move somewhere else or study at a university in your country. |
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naturegirl321
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Unfortunately, I �m stuck in Peru for a while. I don't make 5 dollars an hour, thankfully, I make more than average. I guess I'll keep looking for schools. |
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christee
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| I'm in the exact same boat. I've researched literally hundreds of distance learning programs and amazingly have found the most economical international MA to be the one of the best: the University of London. They call it their "external programme" and their website is http://www.londonexternal.ac.uk/. A complete MBA is about 9000 pounds sterling but they have smaller certificates available for less. Their prices are about half of what an MBA in America would cost. |
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Chris_Crossley
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject: MA in Applied Educational Leadership and Management |
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| christee wrote: |
| I'm in the exact same boat. I've researched literally hundreds of distance learning programs and amazingly have found the most economical international MA to be the one of the best: the University of London. They call it their "external programme" and their website is http://www.londonexternal.ac.uk/. A complete MBA is about 9000 pounds sterling but they have smaller certificates available for less. Their prices are about half of what an MBA in America would cost. |
I have never been a University of London External Student insofar as I have actually got started on a degree programme that the London External Programme (see above URL for the home page) offers (i.e., I applied for the same programme twice but never got around to doing it despite being accepted each time), but I do know that it can offer value for money at postgraduate level as well as at undergraduate level.
In my case, I have my eye on possibly starting the programme's MA in Applied Educational Leadership and Management, which has just one worldwide fee of 7,655 pounds sterling for the 2007-08 academic year and remains fixed even if you pay a year at a time for the three years that the degree programme lasts. This is a programme fee, not an annual fee, by the way. I think it might be well worth doing if one wishes to move up the ranks, especially if one already possesses a teaching qualification issued by one's home country's government (as I do for the secondary/high school state sector for England and Wales).
I have plenty of time to make up my mind, though, since the deadline for sending in one's application is not until June 30th, but I will save up some hard-earned cash in the meanwhile in case I do decide to go ahead with it! |
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Sgt Killjoy
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| If you are Americano, you might want to check out an online program in the states because you can at least federal loans to cover the tuition. I am preparing to get my MA in Instructional Technology. No out of pocket money for me, right now, it is from a reputable state university, and I can take the classes wherever I have net access. |
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saint57
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| Do you get the exact same degree with the University of London external programme or is there a big "external programme" written on the degree? |
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moot point
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| Do you get the exact same degree with the University of London external programme or is there a big "external programme" written on the degree? |
I did my MA in "English Teaching" with UofL's Institute of Education. I'm looking at my wall and there is nothing that says this degree was completed through distance learning. Mind you, it wasn't as cheap as previous posters have mentioned. If I recall it cost roughly 10,000 pounds.
The MA in "English Teaching" was extremely well set up. I've seen they've since changed the name to reflect current standards but at the time the programme leader, Anita Pincas, decided to title it that way as to incorporate a broader perspective opposed to more limited references like TEFL, TESOL, TEAL, etc.
Our professors were of top quality with several well-known names like Peter Hill, Widdowson, Krashen, and the like providing video lectures.
I absolutely believe that the weekly e-mail discussions far exceed the typical 3-hour weekly seminar. We did our readings, watched our videos and then shot our opinions around with each other.
Members of this course tended to be of the older type. I think I was the youngest at 29. Students were also teaching all over the world from PEI to Alaska to UAE to Jakarta to Japan. Most were Brits or other Commonwealth nationalities but a few were locals such as Suharto's daughter from Indonesia...she dropped out. |
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Chris_Crossley
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| Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject: Standards are the same no matter how you study |
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The University of London has a specific statute that states something along the lines of "A student shall receive a qualification of the same standard no matter what the mode of study is."
In other words, the standard of the qualification from this federal university, even if the individual curricula remain the affair of each of the individual colleges, will remain the same no matter if a student studies on a full-time basis, on a part-time/evening basis (I did chemistry for two years this way at Birkbeck College in 1995-97) or on a distance learning basis.
The mode of study would therefore be considered irrelevant and would not even be mentioned on the degree certificate. |
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mep3
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject: ... |
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| To apply to distance MA programs, do you have to take the GRE's? How do you do that if you are in Peru, or China? Thanks .... Mep |
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