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Programme forums where they could share their work. Examples
Requirements and might include presenting at departmental meetings,
Expectations at special interest groups such as the Medical
Education Special Interest Group (MESIG) and the
Attendance Physics Education Discussion Group, or at College-
wide events such as Education Day. There are also
Full attendance at the taught sessions is expected opportunities to present at national and international
and students may find successful completion of the conferences, including both specific education ones
dissertation very challenging if they do not attend such as the Society for Research in Higher Education
these sessions. If students are unable to attend it may (SRHE) and Higher Education Academy (HEA) and
be recommended that they postpone their entry on discipline specific conferences that often have an
to the MEd until they are able to commit to the time. education strand or parallel sessions. Students
Should you have any problems attending any part of may also seek to publish from their dissertation in
the taught sessions, students are expected to contact education or discipline specific journals. EDU staff
the course director. can help support this process and co-authorship
should be discussed with the supervisor. Some
Making Progress students may wish to continue with an academic
programme such as a PhD or EdD. EDU staff would be
happy to talk through these options with students.
If students are interested in pursuing their studies
at doctoral level they may also wish to join the EDEN
group (Educational Doctorate EDU Network).
Once every two months, students will be asked Online Plagiarism Course
to provide an update of their progress as well as
action plans for the forthcoming two months. The All Master’s students will be required to self-enrol
purpose of this is to help students monitor their onto the course which is available via Blackboard.
own progress and set goals that will help ensure Instructions on how to enrol can be found on the
successful completion of the dissertation. This will Graduate School’s Plagiarism Awareness Online
also enable supervisors to keep up to date with Course webpage: www.imperial.ac.uk/study/pg/
students’ progress and identify any issues that need graduate-school/professional-skills/plagiarism-
support. Students will be sent a link to an online form awareness-course
to complete this.
Progressing from the MEd The course will take approximately 1.5 hours to
complete but can be saved and returned to at a later
On successful completion of the MEd students will date. There is no limit to the amount of times students
have a number of options open to them. can take the course - it can be accessed anytime,
so there will always be an opportunity to refresh
Dissemination would be a key part of the MEd understanding.
journey and therefore students may look to in-house
Enquiries: graduate.school@imperial.ac.uk
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