jueves, 10 de noviembre de 2016

Postgraduate studies

I want to study a postgraduate course, but first I want to work for a few years in order to save money, move to a bigger apartment and travel a little with my friends and family. I want to take a course related to public policies or institutional development, however, I don’t want to study it here because post graduate courses in Chile have a structursl problem: since the undergraduate careers are so long (over 5 years), the knowledge that one acquires in the postgraduate courses is not really new. For example, a couple of friends of mine are doing the magister in family law, however, the courses are extremely similar to the ones they took when they were studying law (family law, filial relationships, the legal clinic regarding family matters and other compulsory and elective courses) with just a little bit of specialization. Most people I know that are either doing a MSc degree or a PhD here in chile agree that even though it boosts up the chance of getting a job, in terms of learning new things is not worth it. The main reason for me to study a postgraduate course is learning more and actually be a contribution to my future work, and since I’d like to work in the public service improving public policies regardin equality, I want to go abroad to do a MSc degree in gender, development and inequality or political economy regarding gender  issues. I know that many european and north american universities offer this course, and that most of them offer it on a part time module, so that I can also work while i’m studying it.

4 comentarios:

  1. I also glide to work, because is needed a lot of money to study, especially if it's abroad.

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  2. I didn't know about that problem with the postgraduate studies here in Chile, I will have in mind once I get to it, thank for mention it.

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  3. I must said that I didn't know about problem you're mentioning so I hope you can make it abroad.

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  4. I've never heard about that problem before... I want to do a postgraduate studie too, but maybe a few yearse after graduate. I want to travel too!

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