Master programmes in Development studies 2017-2018 Development studies

studying @ IOB I OB is a multidisciplinary academic institution where people of different opinions, religions and nationalities feel at home. It has several decades of experience in organising international educational programmes in the field of development policy and management. IOB is part of the University of Antwerp, and it is located on the University’s City Campus in Antwerp, Belgium. Each year, the Institute is home to some 80 students of approximately 30 different nationalities from diverse academic and professional backgrounds. This provides for an extraordinary multicultural and multidisciplinary learning environment. Our Master programmes are organised in English, but special facilities are offered to students from other linguistic backgrounds. IOB offers policy-oriented education that combines the latest social scientific insights with relevance to the development challenge. Students are expected to learn from each other’s experiences, as well as from their exposure to 4 · master programmes living and working in a developed country. The institute focuses on student-centred learning, and its approach involves a combination of teaching methods (lectures, individual and group assignments, discussions, student presentations, literature-based independent study, seminars, guest lectures, analysis of case studies, simulations, individual tutoring). Our ideal classroom presents a mix of students, most of them coming from the global south, but also students from the global north who are already pursuing (or wish to pursue) careers in development are very welcome. Most of our students from the global south are mid-career development professionals from low-income and lower middle-income countries have a Master in one of the social sciences and are taking a career break to meet peers seeking an exposure to new ideas and methodologies in development policy. IOB offers three Master programmes, each with a high degree of specialisation and a

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