Funding supports of €800,000 available at MIC for postgraduate research

If you are considering a Masters or Doctorate, Mary Immaculate College (MIC), recently announced funding supports of €800,000 per annum through its Departmental Assistantships Scheme and merit-based Research Masters and Doctoral Awards Scheme.

About Mary Immaculate College (MIC)

Mary Immaculate College provides world-class postgraduate programmes in Education and the Liberal Arts at Diploma, as well as Masters and Doctoral (PhD) levels. MIC systematically builds for student success by providing panel-based monitoring at review and progression points. In addition, students acquire a wide range of transferrable skills training such as academic writing, project management, research integrity and ethical conduct, distributed leadership, presentation and conference skills. Postgraduate students also enjoy doctoral seminar and colloquium format, along with innovative masters classes and summer schools. Furthermore, they are supported by research supervisors who maintain their own continuing postgraduate training and development portfolios.

Diverse range of programmes

Mary Immaculate College offers a wide and diverse range of taught programmes in Education as well as the Liberal Arts. Just some of these programmes include:

• Specialised taught MA programmes in Language and English Literature
• Media Studies
• Gaeilge
• Philosophy
• Theology
• German Studies
• History

Students in MIC’s renowned Masters of Education programmes develop knowledge and understanding in specialist areas such as special educational needs, information and communication technologies and early childhood care and education. The Faculty of Education also offers a range of Masters programmes including:

• Music Education
• Education and the Well-Being of the Older Person
• Education and the Arts

In addition, they offer:

• Certificate in Adult and Further Education
• Graduate Diploma/ M. Ed. in Information and Communication Technologies in Primary Education
• Graduate Certificate in Autism Studies.