Introduction to Financial Accounting

If you’re an educational professional who are looking to progress into management and consultancy, or an educational planning or development role, this is the best degree for you.

Provided by the KU Institute of Education, this programme is available by distance learning, allowing you to study flexibly while balancing work and personal lifes.

The MSc Finance (EG. Banking) deepens your understanding of banks and financial markets, and how they relate to performance. It will help you to advance your career in finance and policy.

The PLP in Drafting Legislation, Regulation, and Policy has been offered by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies with considerable success since 2004.

The programme aims to promote an understanding of the principles of legislative and an awareness of what constitutes legislative quality, how this can be achieved.

Legislative drafting is often perceived as a skill that one learns on the job.
Legislative drafting has evolved to become the bedrock of political, economic and social transformation. The view of the Institute’s Sir William Doe Centre for Legislative Studies is that legislative drafting is a practical discipline requiring awareness of the principles of drafting along with great experience on the job. It is still, however, relatively unexplored as a discipline. The PLP examines issues related to the policy process, the legislative process and the drafting process.

The PLP is aimed at those seeking a career in legislative drafting, those already working as drafters or those who want a career in or already working for, organizations that produce different types of normative acts. Many of our students are mid-career drafters employed by government (for example, by LG Chambers, the Ministry of Justice or any other ministries).

Course Offerings and Requirements

Students will be offered required technical core courses and technical electives to help them learn
fundamental knowledges and gain technical specialties. All students are also required to take mandatory
non-credit courses covering non-technical professional skills. To complete the program, students need to
write a thesis summarizing the results of their research and pass the thesis defense.
For the 2-year master program, program structure and the required degree components and number of
credits are given in Table 3 below. The number of courses and the distribution of credit and non-credit
courses across different semesters are done by considering the following considerations:
• Students with diverse backgrounds can gain enough fundamental knowledge and develop
sufficient basic understandings and first-hand experiences in processing of wood and NTFPs
within the first semester so they can effectively work on their research project quickly. Thus,
students are required to take two core courses (one in biomaterials science, and one in biomass
conversion) within the first semester after they enter the program.
• Students will also be taught research methods and numerical and computer analysis tools. They
will gain an overall knowledge of the forest sector in management, policy, conservation, and
sustainable development areas. As a result, they will take two non-credit courses: one in forest
management and conservation and one in research methods and data analytics.
• For the second semester, with the knowledge gained from the first semester, students will be
taking a core course delivered as an invited lecture series. The course will be taught by leading
experts from a broad range of fields relevant to forest products around the world. This course will
students connected with the latest technological developments globally to ensure their research
projects are built on most up-to-date scientific findings. They will also receive training through a
non-credit required course in entrepreneurship, communication, and leadership skills that will
help them to better disseminate and communicate their research findings to broad audiences and
assist them to commercialize new technologies developed at the end of their program.
• Students will be able to dedicate a significant amount of their program time to focus on their
thesis project so they can produce high caliper thesis work that is publishable in leading scientific
journals and suitable for practical implementations. Thus, students will spend a significant amount
of time (21hrs per week) to work on their thesis from 2nd semester with a lighter course load.
• Students will work full time on their thesis research for the second year of the program.
• Master students are not required to take technical electives. However, if they wish to gain more
depth in a particular field to help with their thesis research, they will be permitted to do so with
the approval of their thesis supervisors.
• Workload for students per semester will be in-line with the workloads for other Nepalese
institutions.

Table 3: Program Component and Workload per Semester for the 2-year Master’s Program

* Advanced Topics in Sustainable Bio-based Products Course (invited lecture series) ** Credit courses (4 credit-hour each) *** Non-credit courses (4 credit-hour each) +
1 Cr. hour = 1 hour in class room and 2 hours outside class room per week
++1 Cr. hour thesis is equivalent to 3 hours student work per week.
+++One semester is 16 weeks. Workload per week is 45-48 hours ^
Elective course is not required, but students may take them if they wish with the approval of their
supervisors

Meanwhile, the total required minimum course credits for the master’s program are shown in Table 4
below:

Table 4: Minimum Required Components and Credits for the Master’s Program

The required degree components and course credits for the PhD program are given in Table 5 as shown
below. Similar considerations to those for the master’s degree are made with the following differences:
• PhD student will be required to take at least one technical elective to acquire more depth in a
specialized field.
• Students will start to work on their thesis project from 2nd semester to formulate a PhD thesis
proposal in preparation for the qualifying exam which they have to pass within the first year.

Table 5: Program Component and Workload per Semester for the 3-year PhD Program

* Passing of a qualify exam on doctoral thesis proposal within the 1st year of the program is required **
Advanced topics in sustainable bio-based products course (invited lecture series) *** Credit courses (4 credit-hour each) **** Non-credit courses (4 credit-hour each) +
1 Cr. hour = 1 hour in class room and 2 hours outside classroom per week. ++1 Cr. hour thesis is equivalent to 3 hours student work per week.
+++One semester is 16 weeks. Workload per week is 48 hours

In summary, the required course credits and other program components for the PhD program are given
in Table 6 below:

Table 6: Required Degree Components and Credit for the PhD Program