MSc Public Policy and Management
How you study
Without leaving your job or home you can study, write and submit assignments, receive expert guidance from your CeFiMS tutor and advice from the student support team. In addition to printed study materials, the Online Study Centre allows students to work with course materials, send queries to tutors and submit assignments via the Internet.
When you take a CeFiMS distance learning course you will be sent everything you need to complete your studies. A typical set of course learning materials would include:
- The Study Guide, a core text specially written for the course. This takes the form of a looseleaf binder containing eight ‘course units’. The units are carefully structured to provide the main teaching of the course, defining and exploring the main concepts and issues, locating these within current debate and introducing and linking the further assigned readings.
- Textbooks and collections of key journal articles and book extracts.
- Online and multimedia tools. You will have access to the OSC, which is a web-accessed learning environment. Via the OSC, you can communicate with your assigned academic tutor, administrators and other students on the course using discussion forums. The OSC also provides access to the course Study Guide and assignments, as well as a selection of electronic journals available on the University of London Online Library. In addition, some courses materials will also include video lectures on DVD, CDs of case studies, and econometric software.
- A Welcome Pack is available online, which provides you with resources and tips on effective distance learning. We will also send you a Study Skills textbook to help you manage your studies.
Online Study Centre (OSC)
Created by CeFiMS to provide additional resources and support, the Online Study Centre allows students
to:
- access study materials that complement printed texts
- submit assignments
- communicate with tutors
- contact support staff regarding administrative queries
- access online resources provided by the University of London Library including full-text journal databases of JSTOR and EBSCO.
Note: Students who are eligible to use the OSC are automatically contacted by CeFiMS staff and given information about how to access the system for their course.