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Observations see
L&W Newsletter
No 2007/01
No 2008/03

Related directories (WIFO):

Directory of Doctoral Dissertations (access)

Directory of Professional Contacts (access)

The following directory presents about 100 examples of current Masters programmes in European countries, being offered in 2007/2008 and/or 2008/2009. This is the third edition of the Masters Directory, released in June 2008 (see L&W Newsletter No 2008/03). The first edition was published as part of the EHRD Portal (Programmes), in collaboration with the University Forum for HRD, in 2004. Since the second edition (2006), a broader field of learning and work, related to the thematic areas of HRD and/or VET, has been applied (see L&W Newsletter No 2007/01).

The main interest of this directory is to identify and map the themes of Masters programmes against the general background of European HRD/VET research activities (initial observations see L&W Newsletter No 2007/01). Studies in this field have been undertaken as part of parallel projects (see ERO VET&HRD Base and WIFO Research Monitor). Alongside the thematic overview of programmes introduced in the second edition, a new feature of the third edition is a regional map presenting the range of themes by country.

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SOURCES and STUDIES

The main source of information for each entry is the individual programme home page, supported by information obtained from professionals involved. The data collection is based on the following sources:

• Questionnaire sent to the L&W network (about 800 professionals across Europe) in December 2006 and December 2007
• Websites of institutions included in the previous directory of EHRD related Masters programmes
• Websites of university institutions which include centres of research in VET or HRD 
• Erasmus Mundus Masters Programme 
• European and national directories of Masters or higher education programmes

• New > Directory of continuing vocational education, incl. Master programmes, in Austria (Berufsbegleitende Studien: Österreich) http://bb.netletter.at/ 
• Comparing national systems of human resource development: Content and structure of postgraduate HRD courses of study in the UK and US (Peter Kuchinke - 2002) http://www.b.shuttle.de/wifo/ehrd-per/ku02.htm
• HRD related Masters programmes in Europe (Sabine Manning - 2004) http://www.b.shuttle.de/wifo/ehrd-per/ma04.htm 
• Masters' courses in the education of adults in the UK (John Field, Richard Dockrell, Peter Gray - 2005) http://escalate.ac.uk/2085