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Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP)
This course will provide you with the analytical and pragmatic tools to address global challenges, issues of inequalities, violence, migration, health, justice and security. The DPP groups qualifications are grounded in theory from different disciplines but are practice based, providing both ideas to challenge you and practical skills for working in international development. The course offers a range of qualifications, each building towards a Masters programme. This allows you to work in your own time and offers maximum flexibility. The modules mostly run twice a year and have been designed to be studied around your work and family life commitments.Key facts
– Thousands of students, from former Presidents to country field workers, from over 100 countries have completed an OU Development Management qualification
– DPP provides supported distance learning. For each module you take you will have a dedicated tutor and access to a programme of tutorials and seminars both online and face-to-face
– DPP offers certificates, diplomas and a full MSc so students can build towards a qualification depending on their work and time commitments
– The Development Management team includes members of the Development Policy and Practice Group – the academics who teach and undertake research into development management – and the Associate Lecturers (ALs), the tutors who help guide the learning of all our students. Wherever you study you will be in the company of the team and our students worldwide, and can enjoy networking with fellow-students, development practitioners and academics
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Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP), United Kingdom
Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP)
Gain a framework for analysing development management practiceWhat are the challenges of development? How do we overcome them? This postgraduate qualification addresses the complexities of development and will help you build the skills needed to manage these challenges. This degree builds on the global agenda for sustainable development and assumes that development management is a political and ethical process. It addresses how to achieve goals in contexts affected by conflicts of interests, values, and agendas. You’ll learn skills related to strategic thinking, research, advocacy, and policymaking that are necessary for a career as a development manager.
What are the learning outcomes?
By the end of your studies, you have studied the:
- different conceptualisations of development and its management in theory and practice
- key concepts and theories that reveal development management as a process that is personal, political and professional
- tools, methods and frameworks for investigation and analysis aimed at informing development policy and practice.
Programs on this degree
- Global Development in Practice: Bringing about change
- Global Development in Practice: Discovering development management
- Global Development in Practice: Doing development
- Global Development in Practice: Understanding development contexts
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Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP), United Kingdom
Islands and Small States Institute (ISSI), University of Malta
The aim of the programme is to impart knowledge on Islands and Small State issues and to provide the opportunity for students to conduct research on the same issues by submitting assignments and writing a dissertation.On completion of this course students should be able to understand the special problems and opportunities faced by Small States and Small Island Jurisdictions with regard to environmental, economic, social and political concerns, at the national, regional and international levels. Students would also be encouraged to conduct research and are expected to write a dissertation on islands and small states issues.
Start Date: October
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Islands and Small States Institute (ISSI), University of Malta, Malta
Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI)
Fechas de realización: Del 14 de octubre al 20 de diciembre de 2019La Migración y la Globalización desde 1989 se han convertido en actores importantes dentro del sistema de Relaciones Internacionales. A través de este curso se intentarán responder cuestiones tales como ¿Cómo se han convertido los flujos migratorios en un actor internacional? ¿Cuáles han sido las políticas diseñadas por los gobiernos y las organizaciones internacionales hacia los flujos migratorios? ¿Qué tipos de migraciones existen? Al finalizar este Diploma se contará con el conocimiento necesario para analizar y evaluar el impacto de las migraciones en el ámbito internacional, así como con las bases para profundizar en este ámbito.
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Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI), Spain
King’s International Development Institute (IDI)
The Political Economy of Emerging Markets MSc offers a distinctive approach to the study of development. We focus on the political economy of emerging markets, especially national development strategies and the underlying politics and institutions. The course also covers subjects such as development theory, political economy, geography and management, and is flexible enough to allow you to focus on particular countries and regions.Our course provides you with high-quality post-graduate teaching and training in the analysis of emerging economies. It offers a distinctive approach to the study of development by focusing on rising economic powers with a particular focus on national development strategies, economic and political institutions, and the political processes that influence economic reforms. We are based at King’s Department of International Development, which enables us to draw on social scientific expertise from across other departments in the faculties of Social Sciences & Public Policy and Arts & Humanities as well as King’s Global Institutes.
The course critically assesses economic development theory to ask whether emerging economies offer a new model or models of development. Our main focus is examining the strategies that emerging economies have adopted to promote development. This includes asking how sustainable or enduring these new strategies are and how emerging markets solve the difficult problems of promoting growth over the longer term. To answer this last question, we investigate how emerging economies deal with the development and diffusion of technology, manage trade and financial flows, balance the role of the state and the market, and tackle problems of institutional underdevelopment and weak systems of law and accountability.
Duration: 1 year FT / 2 years PT, September to September
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King’s International Development Institute (IDI), United Kingdom
DID
Islands and Small States Institute (ISSI), University of Malta
The aim of the programme is to impart knowledge on Islands and Small State issues and to provide the opportunity for students to conduct research on the same issues by submitting assignments and writing a dissertation.On completion of this course students should be able to understand the special problems and opportunities faced by Small States and Small Island Jurisdictions with regard to environmental, economic, social and political concerns, at the national, regional and international levels. Students would also be encouraged to conduct research and are expected to write a dissertation on islands and small states issues.
Start Date: October
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Islands and Small States Institute (ISSI), University of Malta, Malta
Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE)
Since winter 2007, the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy has been offering an international English-language PhD programme in International Development Studies. It is implemented by the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy on behalf of the Faculties of Geography, Law, Social Science, and Economics. Up to 10 PhD candidates are accepted to the programme annually. The programme builds on three fundamental pillars: It is a structured PhD programme with a strong interdisciplinary and international focus.The PhD in International Development Studies is an interdis-ciplinary, structured programme. It is offered by the IEE in collaboration with the Faculties of Geosciences (Geography Department), Law Science, Social Sciences and Economics. Besides working on their individual research projects partici-pants have to attend a variety of compulsory lectures and seminars, including:
• Lecture cycle „International Development”
• Economic Perspectives of Development
• Social Science Perspectives of Development
• Empirical Methods and Statistical Analyses
Seminars and workshops aimed at the training of key aca-demic competencies complement the program. Regular presentation and discussion of individual research projects is part of the IEE Research Cluster Meetings, which are attended by IEE research fellows, PhD candidates and their supervisors.
The application deadline is 30th April every year.
Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE), Germany
Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton
This degree (formerly called the MA Governance and Development) provides you with a theoretical and practical understanding of debates on political change and how public authority is created and exercised. Based at IDS, you’ll build your critical and analytical skills, and improve your ability to develop and implement policies across state and non-state organisations.A distinct feature of the MA is the focus on policy and practice. Core modules – taken by all MA Gov students – provide theoretical and topical foundations for the degree. Optional modules, which build on these foundations, apply concepts and theories to a range of development issues, focusing on equipping students with the methodologies and tools to assess and critique different policy options. We draw upon case-studies, faculty, students, and research partners from Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and South Asia, to enrich the curriculum of the MA.
Duration: One year full-time or two years part-time.
The academic year commences in September.
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Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, United Kingdom
IDS
Institute for European Studies, University of Malta; Islands and Small States Institute (ISSI), University of Malta
The University of Malta is a vibrant university which has chosen student development, research and outreach as its three strategic pillars. Our research profile is underpinned by the contribution of our postgraduate community. UM is publicly funded and is open to all those with the requisite qualifications.Research-based doctoral studies at UM provide students with the opportunity to pursue substantial independent research on their own under the guidance of their supervisors, who are experts in their field of research. Successful doctoral theses must, among other things, display evidence of substantial and original research, lucid and scholarly presentation, and a sound knowledge of the general field within which the thesis falls.
Applicants who wish to pursue doctoral research at the University of Malta will normally have completed a second cycle Master’s degree programme.
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Institute for European Studies, University of Malta, Malta
Islands and Small States Institute (ISSI), University of Malta, Malta
King’s International Development Institute (IDI)
Our Emerging Economies & International Development MSc offers a distinctive approach to the study of development by focusing on emerging economies. We cover subjects such as development theory, political economy, geography and social policy. You will also have the opportunity to focus on particular countries and regions.Our MSc course provides you with high-quality post-graduate teaching and research training in the analysis of emerging economies. It offers a distinctive approach to the study of development by focusing on rising economic powers and some of the questions surrounding their emergence as key players in global politics and the economy. It also draws on social scientific expertise from across other departments in the Faculties of Social Sciences & Public Policy and Arts & Humanities.
This course focuses on reviewing economic development theory to ask whether emerging economies offer a new model or models of development. It looks at the strategies that they have adopted to promote development, how inclusive and sustainable or enduring these new strategies are and how emerging markets solve the difficult problems of promoting growth over the longer term. While investigating this last question we will discuss how these countries handle the development and diffusion of technology, how they manage trade and financial flows, how they balance the role of the state and the market, and how they deal with problems of institutional underdevelopment and weak systems of law and accountability.
Duration: 1 year FT / 2 years PT, September to September
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King’s International Development Institute (IDI), United Kingdom
DID
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