Students on the programme receive the following support:
• An online induction workshop to help make the transition to studying for the final year of a degree. The workshop covers study skills, critical reasoning skills, writing skills with plagiarism, and examination skills. In addition to interactive tutorials, the workshop includes self-assessment tests and exercises.
• An online Study Guide for each module that includes an in-depth explanation of the course content and syllabus, a detailed reading list, activities, exercises and sample exam questions with outline answers.
• A year’s subscription to ‘Questia’, an online academic library. The subscription gives full access to over 60,000 textbooks and more than 155,000 journal articles.
• Comprehensive examiners' reports after each examination explaining how the exam questions were marked, what the examiner was looking for in a good answer and, where relevant, common errors in answers.
• A programme manager who will provide advice and support as students progress through the course.
• A personal tutor who will provide support if a student experiences problems of a non-academic nature.
• A module leader who will respond to any queries of a academic nature. Each of the four module leaders is a full-time academic at a British university and was responsible for developing the syllabus for their module.
• Access to MDP’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). All of the course material is on the VLE together with an indicative study timetable, Student Handbook and submission dates for assignments.