Career prospects

CAREER PROSPECTS CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION AND MEDIA APPLICATIONS:

As a graduate of the CIMA specialisation, you have a promising and varied future ahead of you. For example, you play an active role in major educational and training innovation programmes as a designer, researcher or consultant. Or you might design and develop multimedia products for companies in the field of e-learning. You also might consider a career in supporting organisations in the development of learning policy and to consider the design of study environments in a broad sense – both physical and digital. Or you could investigate the possible use of the latest media applications in education and training. Our graduates work in a wide range of organisations, from government, ministries, publishers and educational support services to universities, higher education institutes and multinational companies. A number of graduates have started their own education and training consultancy.

CAREER PROSPECTS EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT, EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT

As a graduate of the EMEA specialisation, you are in a position to direct your own career path. You could opt for a role as an academic designer of educational systems or policies, you may join an educational and training consultancy agency, or you may become an expert in an assessment or testing company, in an examination board or in a certification agency. Other possibilities include careers like policy maker, assessor or researcher in the social sciences. But whatever path you may choose, you are equipped to tackle a wide variety of educational management and evaluation questions. E.g. what are the prospects for computer-adaptive testing and virtual reality examinations? How do you implement school self-assessment? What are the effects of bureaucratisation on primary education?

CAREER PROSPECTS HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

As a graduate of the HRD specialisation, you have excellent career prospects. You could work, for example, in a corporate personnel department, or for a consultancy firm. Or you might prefer to opt for an academic career. Whatever you choose, you can be sure that you will have plenty of fascinating questions to tackle. How do people within an organisation learn from each another? How can you encourage employees to share what they know? What effect does that have on productivity? How do you create a good working climate? And what exactly are the organisation’s knowledge needs?

ACADEMIC CAREER

Interested in pursuing an academic career? The Twente Graduate School offers you the possibility to combine the master’s degree programme EST with PhD research in the TGS programme Learning in Educational and Training Settings. More information on this programme and extra admission criteria are available on the website: http://www.utwente.nl/tgs/programmes.