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Our two-year Postgraduate Diploma in Child Nursing offers graduates a fast track to a new career in nursing using existing academic skills. When you complete your course, you will be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

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This programme has been developed to allow practitioners the greatest flexibility in developing specialist skills and knowledge at a highly demending academic and practical level.The aim is to provide student with the opportunity to create a challenging and rewarding mater's programme tailored to their personal development needs. Compulsory modules are kept to a minimum, with a wide range of modules avaliable for individual selection depending upon personal goals.

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This LLM is primarily designed for applicants who have completed their Legal Practice Course Qualification at this or another institution and applicants may be given credit for that qualification. This Masters could therefore be awarded upon study of the Advanced Legal Research Methodology module, which will give students the necessary training to enable them to extend their study to postgraduate level, and then completion of a 15,000 word dissertation on a subject from Legal Practice, leading to an award of LLM in Advanced Legal Practice.

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Overview:The 3 year MSc in Nursing (pre-registration) allows the student, on successful completion of the programme, to be eligible to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council on the relevant part of the register. This programme is aimed at highly motivated graduates who wish to rapidly accelerate their careers.The programme is offered in 3 fields of nursing; adult, mental health and child.

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Increasingly professionals in the community and voluntary sectors and in the safeguarding and abuse-related work are being challenged to deal with highly complex social issues. Working in these areas requires a depth of knowledge, analysis and reflective thinking that is supported and encouraged within Master's level study.

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The distance learning programmes in gerontology are designed for those who wish to combine high-quality academic study in the field of gerontology with other obligations, such as paid work and/or family/care.Core modules: Ageing and globalisation; Ageing, health and well-being; Demographic change; Perspectives in gerontology; Qualitative research methods; Quantitative research methods; Researching contemporary issues in ageing societies;Plus: A dissertation (MSc only).

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Core units: Perspectives in Gerontology; Ageing, Health and Well-Being; Contemporary Issues in Ageing Societies; Demographic Change, Ageing and Globalisation.Optional units - Two from: Social Policy Analysis 1 and 2; Sociological Analysis 1 and 2; Contemporary Social Issues; Population Processes in the Developed World; Population and Health.Plus - Two from: Philosophy and Methods of Social Research; Qualitative Methods; Survey Design Methods and the Uses of Social Data; Design, Conduct and Dissemination of Research; Statistical Data Analysis; Multivariate Analysis 1 and 2.Plus: A dissertation (MSc only).

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Fast-Track for registered Nurses to gain a degree. Develops academic and clinical midwifery skills, preparing for practice within a diverse population.

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This part-time, fully online programme will support the need for up-to-date knowledge, skills and theory in a wide variety of clinical areas in pain management. Each course of the programme is divided into a set of themed sections in which material is presented in a blend of short online lectures, practical case studies, directed readings, podcasts and archived webinars.

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Despite a new pathophysiological understanding of many headache disorders and the emergence of significant new treatments for headache over recent years, healthcare professionals remain undereducated and uncomfortable with diagnosing and treating primary headaches and headaches arising secondary to other medical conditions. As primary headache disorders represent such a large part of the primary care practice, and secondary headaches are both commonly presented and frequently over-diagnosed, the average healthcare professional requires more education than currently seen in undergraduate studies.A holistic approach to care is central to this programme and will provide best practice for the diagnosis, management and delivery of a headache service, and would be particularly suited to healthcare professionals who want to improve their skills in this area.The University of Edinburgh can draw together unrivalled academic expertise in the form of the editorial faculty, and combined with the experience of the team currently offering the MSc in Pain Management, those undertaking the programme will become foci not only for better patient diagnosis and management of headache disorders, but also for teaching and advocacy.The objective of the programme is to reduce the burden of headache disorders and improve the management of headache in primary care

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