The Part-time way:
Experience of running the full-time course showed us the need to set up an alternative pattern of study which would allow students to attend nearer to their country of origin and for shorter periods.
Subsequent work with non-governmental and teachers' organisations from Europe, Asia and Africa revealed that the format of the part-time delivery of the programme should be flexible enough to accommodate local circumstances and schedules, while ensuring an equivalent and comparable student experience. This would allow working practitioners, teachers, development and cultural officers to refine their praxis through this vocational graduate programme. It could run, for example, over three 10 week blocks of study taken over a two year period at a regional centre identified by the programme team in liaison with appropriate local organisations.
Where a sufficient number of students are recruited to the programme from the same region of the world, they may opt to take the MA in its part-time route, delivered at a regional centre wholly by members of the programme team. Partnership does not mean dual or joint delivery, nor is there any element of franchising.
The academic content of the part-time course remains unchanged from the full time model.
Requests for the programme in its part-time mode include the current proposal to run the programme for Greek schoolteachers. This grew from concern over the increasing racial segregation in Greek schools. As this is becoming more common in most European centres, the content and model of delivery can be repeated in other contexts.
