Drawing upon the wide range of expertise within the consortium, whose members represent more than 90% of the nuclear postgraduate teaching expertise residing in the UK’s universities and research institutes, this programme offers a broad portfolio of topics ranging from nuclear physics through to decommissioning and waste disposal.

The structure and syllabus was developed in close cooperation with the UK nuclear industry in order to ensure relevance to the end users’ needs.

This innovative programme is available on a full-time or part-time basis and leads to an MSc in Nuclear Science & Technology. However the flexibility offered by the ‘short fat’ modular structure allows individual units to be taken for Continuing Professional Development purposes.

The UK nuclear sector is extremely supportive of this initiative which is seen to be a valuable element in addressing the anticipated skills shortage in this area.

The programme will be starting in September 2005 and applications are now being accepted.

Full details can be found on the programme website www.ntec.ac.uk