Report 15: The Taught MA in English

Based on interviews with postgraduate students and MA programme leaders and a survey of course provision this report examines the varied purposes served by the taught postgraduate degree in English studies. It explores why students undertake MAs and why departments provide them. The report highlights the pressure on the MA to meet different student needs from those 'topping up' their BA to those seeing it as training for a PhD. Those concerned with postgraduate provision in their department or across the discipline as a whole will find it an engaging read.