Brochure Application Form Doctorate Proposal Form About The University

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Benefits:

This course aims to produce a group of leading practitioners who have mastered the full range of theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for the conduct of their professional activities at the highest level.

Using specifically designed materials you will gain a thorough grasp of the theoretical foundations of the profession. This will include advanced theory from a number of different social science disciplines, e.g. economics, education and training policy, management science, the psychology of learning, sociology, and the sociology of education.

You will gain knowledge of the range of research techniques available for enhancing professional knowledge and the ability to utilise appropriate research techniques to produce research of publishable quality.

Title: Doctorate in Social Science

Awarding Body: University of Leicester

Mode: Distance Learning

Duration: The programme is studied completely by distance learning over a minimum of 48 months to a maximum of 72 months.

Entry requirements: We will require evidence of a relevant Masters degree, preferably at distinction level, together with a detailed outline of your initial research proposal. The validity and quality of the proposal will be of crucial significance in determining eligibility for entry.

Education Loan:

*ADCB’s Ambition Loan for education is the only financial aid provider that helps you afford to pay for an education you always wanted. To know more or to apply SMS “Eduloan” to 2626.

Please call us on +971 4 3901685, email us on info@stafford.ae, or browse details of the programme in our brochure.

• AED 102 530.96

• SAR 104 691.64

• USD 27 914.77

Brochure Application Form About The University 

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About the DBA

The DBA is designed to improve business and managerial practice through the development of the personal, intellectual and academic abilities of participants via a research based project. It has a strong and committed focus on managerial and professional practice, and seeks to link the rigorous study of work-based problems and issues to personal and professional development, thereby ensuring transfer of learning into organisational and managerial practice.

The DBA:

• Is a research based programme. Students identify a work or industry based research project which they undertake over the duration of the programme.

• Is a professional doctorate that has the dual aims of making a contribution to both knowledge and practice.

• Is a research project broken up into sequential chunks. Each chunk, or document, is assessed when completed so that students receive frequent summative feedback.

• Requires students working on document 3 to look at an aspect of their project using qualitative research and document 4 requires them to look at an aspect of their project using quantitative research. This is to ensure that they have a broad competence in management research. For document 5 students can make their own choice of research methods to answer the remaining research question of their project.

• Makes considerable use of learning sets as a form of peer support.

• Provides research methods workshops at appropriate points in the programme to develop the capabilities needed at each stage of the project.

• Provides each student with two supervisors to guide them in their research. One supervisor will be based in the local region and the other will be based at Nottingham Business School.

• The first four assessed documents are assessed by the students’ supervisors, the final two documents are assessed by independent internal and external assessors in a viva voce examination.

• Allows students, as a right, to have a fourth year, if necessary, to complete their DBA.

Assessment:

The award of the DBA will be on the basis of successful completion of the six pieces ofassessed work detailed in the table across. Nottingham Business School recognises that some individuals may not complete the finalthesis of 30,000 words. In the event of non-completion of the thesis, where all other assessment requirements have been met, participants can exit the programme with a Masterof Philosophy (MPhil).
Examination of each participant’s thesis will involve a viva voce and an external assessor with expertise in the subject or topic area ofthe thesis.

Entry requirements:

Candidates for the DBA should normally meet all of the following criteria:

• Hold a MPhil, MBA or other Master level degree in the field of Business and Management or Organisation Studies.

• Hold, or have held a post which includes managerial responsibilities OR have been in a position to be able to observe organisational and managerial practice.

• Have the potential to conduct research and write a thesis at doctoral level.

Prospective candidates not meeting any of the above criteria should contact the Course Leader to discuss the possible relevance of alternative qualifications.

Education Loan:

*ADCB’s Ambition Loan for education is the only financial aid provider that helps you afford to pay for an education you always wanted. To know more or to apply SMS “Eduloan” to 2626.

Please call us on +971 4 3901685, email us on dba@stafford.ae, or browse details of the programme in our brochure.

Note: Application fee: GBP 250

• AED 218 455.87

• SAR 223 059.50

• USD 59 435.05