Professional Practice University of Kent

Overview

This Master's programme offers you the opportunity to attain academic recognition for the skills, knowledge and experience that you have developed in the workplace. Focusing on a specific area of practice relevant to your work, it builds on your work experience and qualifications to enhance your career progression.

You explore your profession further and consider the professional challenges associated within your specific area of practice, with modules that have been designed to help you review and analyse the current debates relevant to the professional context in which you are working.

Due to visa restrictions, students who require a student visa to study cannot study part-time, unless undertaking a distance or blended-learning programme with no on-campus provision.

You are encouraged to convert prior learning achievements into University of Kent academic credit via Recognition of Prior Learning. To be eligible for accreditation, prior learning must be at the appropriate and relevant to the programme's learning outcomes.

Taught by expert academics, you broaden your expertise, deepen your knowledge and hone your research skills while gaining a recognised qualification to help progress your career. The programme is delivered through a variety of teaching methods, including taught sessions and work-based learning, self-study, case-study analysis, individual and group tutorials, projects and presentations. Online learning recourses are available on our virtual learning environment Moodle. 

Teaching is delivered at our Medway campus on average four long weekends a year, Monday - Friday, 09.00-17.00. 

The programme has the following alternative exit awards, subject to credit numbers: 

• Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice  (60 credits)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Practice (60 credits - 120 credits in total).