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MSc in International Development
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MSc in International Development
University of Edinburgh
Formal requirements
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a personal statement of around 500 words, outlining your academic history and relevant experience.
Personal Statement *
This should include why you feel you are qualified to enter the programme and how you think it may affect your career prospects. If you are applying for a Masters programme and your chosen programme has more than one area of specialism or theme you should indicate here which area(s) you wish to specialise in(max 3500 chars - approx. 500 words).
Relevant Knowledge/Training Skills *
This may include details of required laboratory, computer programming, specialised software packages skills or voluntary work that you have undertaken pertinent to the programme. If you have not yet finished your first degree, please tell us about the programme of study you are taking (max 3500 chars - approx. 500 words).
Providing us with the referees email addresses: We will automatically email each referee requesting that they upload a reference for you. This is our preferred approach. Но можно и самому прикрепить файлы
Informal requirements
This programme engages critically with international development thinking and practice, and more broadly with processes of social, political and economic transformation around the world, with a specific focus on the low- and middle-income countries.
programme is designed to suit the needs of both recent graduates of various disciplines, and professionals with two to five, or more, years’ experience who** want to shift careers, upgrade their academic qualifications
This programme provides multidisciplinary training and perspectives on development theory, policy and practice that is aimed to equip graduates for careers in public sector and non-governmental development agencies, consultancy and private business.
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appropriately apply theories and insights from scholarly research to practical issues and problems of development policy and practice
choose and apply the most appropriate research methods to a particular development policy problem or case
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opportunity to deepen your understanding and engagement with the most pressing challenges confronting people, communities and institutions in the Global South
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build capacity and sustainable relationships with our partners, wherever they may be
Tomorrow’s problems are complex and global in nature. They require thoughtful, multidisciplinary solutions. Patterns of poverty, inequality and underdevelopment reflect political, economic and historical legacies and relationships.
- cool professors like Dr Gerhard Anders, Dr Jeevan Sharma Senior Lecturer in South Asia and International Development (Nepal) and others
Uni vision
make the world a better place. so our actions and activities deliver positive change locally, regionally and globally.
We are ambitious, bold and act with integrity, always being willing to listen.