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CAIRN Professional Doctorate

Introduction to "CAIRN Professional Doctorate"

CAIRN Professional Doctorate
Cultural Immersion



CAIRN Professional Doctorate School is a cultural immersion e-learning and communication gateway for traditional healing practitioners experiential training, development studies academic research, and postgraduate and doctorate student exchange,
based in KTM Nepal.


Caer Sidi is a personalized development research program only and is always offered one-on-one by appointment.




CAIRN is particularly proud of its 20 years daily experience with Nepalese, Indian and Tibetan NGOs, its reputed academic collaboration in Asia, Europe USA and Canada, as well as of the quality of its Supervision Board, Research Consultants and integrated Cultural Immersion & online learning infrastructure.

It offers selected online courses and field-research resources focused on the Himalayan region current development priorities,
as well as specializes into curriculum development in selected research niches, through practical and theoretical knowledge in building :
Applied Psychology to Counselling, HRD/HRM Capacity Building, Humanitarian Intervention, Clinical Anthropology, Prospective Health
Anthropology and Tibetan Traditional Healing Psychotherapy.





CAIRN Counselling Services provides advice and counselling on academic matters, including immigration advice and services, useful for Nepalese Mature Students (Postgraduate Personal Project Part-time Options) wishing to study in the EU, Canada or Wales UK.
We support all students regardless of nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual preference or status. We operate CAIRN Education Counselling Services administration both by email and face-to-face Interviews appointments. We encourage all prospective students to kindly email us thereupon, at CAIRN EU-NGO HQ address:
william_rene@hotmail.com



Advice is offered without discrimination. Our services operate according to the EU, UK and Canada Code of Ethics for those advising international students. Our International Student Advisory Service meets the strict rules and standards of the Immigration Services of Canada, USA, the UK, Belgium and EU Official Visa Sections (Consulates or Embassies) in Nepal.

CAIRN operates as a confidential Education Counselling Service for professional and personal project oriented coaching to any prospective student or trainee, from the start of your project’s first Biodata interview up to its final implementation. This serves the general purpose of both clearing the academic accreditation file and provide necessary International Students advisory board screening information to applicants, including on the difficult issues such as visas, file administration and e-learning support options.

Cairn Counselling Services (EU-NGO) is a personalized projects academic exchange program, with cultural immersion options, e-learning and communication gateway for Asian and Western postgraduate researchers and professional continuous education trainees (mature students). It offers an open menu of options of selected online courses and field-research resources, focused on the one side on Asian LDCs development priorities. Cairn Academic Coaching is offered one-on-one by appointment only.
Cairn Euro-Asian Network increases opportunities for internships, field-research and online studies within an international dimension and selected international experts.


Caer Sidi is a personalized development research program only and is always offered one-on-one by appointment.






Professional Doctorate Thesis

Our Team will provide you with all necessary information on CAIRN Professional Doctorate Options, including Health Anthropology, Tibetan Tsa-rLung Applied Psychology, Human Ressources (HRD), Tibetan Ayurvedic Medicine, Counselling and Musico/Energotherapy. Please click here for further details upon : Cairn Professional Doctorate Thesis, conditions, options, cultural immersion, duration, fees and application. The Cairn Consortium EU-NGO is the legal structure for international academic partnership for Professional Doctorate Thesis Supervision and Accreditation. Statutes are provided upon request.


Combining teaching and research to the highest standard The ‘taught' component of the Professional Doctorate will comprise a broad research training, taught at Masters level, to enable participants to employ different research design and implementation techniques in their chosen area of professional interest. There will be a further online ‘taught' component (assessed at the Doctoral-level), which reviews issues of professional relevance and interest to all high level practitioners. During this time preparatory work will commence for the research component (which will also be at the D-level). The research component will enable the participant to work individually, on a research topic (or cluster of related topics) of relevance to their professional role.





Flexible delivery for professionals

The Professional Doctorate programme is designed to support individual learning, driven by a learning needs analysis and personal
development plan (PDP), with the learner identifying learning needs and satisfying these needs through a variety of different resources.

The programme will be delivered in a flexible way to reflect the learning needs of practising professionals who will be studying on a part time
basis and who will be conducting a significant proportion of the work contributing to this degree in their work environment. Typically the ‘taught '
units will delivered by a combination of work-based learning (drawing on the latest available practice-based evidence), web based distance
learning with online discussion and support, and research ‘conferences' either face to face at Bath or via an e-learning discussion board.
The ‘ research and thesis ' element of the programme will be supervised by a panel of specialists comprising an academic member of staff
of the University (to ensure that the work is of a sufficient standard to attain the award of PD) and one or a number of practice-based
specialists will co-supervise this work.

In addition, previous learning experience and credits obtained from elsewhere will be recognised and accredited, in line with the
University's current practice, as part of the admissions criteria for the programme.





Who can apply?
Applicants must propose a Doctorate Thesis / Research Project :

Minimum prerequisites for participation are a BA level, or 3 years minimum professional involvement in a related NGOs or SMEs field of activities.

Applicants need to apply on basis of drafting a personal project proposal,
and may gain, when necessary, a Postgraduate Study ECTS/ECDL Foundation Courses Certificate (1 year duration : 60 credits)
and/or Diploma (3 years duration : 180 credits) Accreditation. They may also choose to attend ECTS credits certified Undergraduate
level Short Courses.

This scheme includes courses options which may be attended either at the CAIRN/SXC in Nepal (first semester Cultural Immersion Preparatory modules) and/or further in the UK, EU or Canada as Foundation Courses.

Cairn Professional Doctorate is open to a wide range of professionals, who have an active interest in practice based research and professional practice issues. International students looking for a taught doctorate experience in health may also apply.





Cairn Mission Statement

The Mission of Cairn Consortium is to:

offer high- education curriculum and field-research options, in tailored joint- programs that promote and cultivate Euro-Asia cross-cultural awareness of the present moment through the intellectual study of the heritage, the know-how of technical skills, the embodiment through artistic and meditative disciplines, and pursuance in a recognized European ECTS/ECDL certification partnership; foster an Asian/Himalayan focused experiential learning community (composed of EU students, faculty, staff, trustees, and alumni) that uncovers wisdom and heart; cultivate openness and communication, sharpen critical intellect, enhance resourcefulness, and develop effective action in all related disciplines; exemplify the principles grounded in the Humanities of both educational heritages; encourage the integration of traditional healing root- traditions in the modern world.


Nowadays, Cairn Consortium has established a long term network of recognized researchers, consultants, HEIs, NGOs, Asbls and SMEs in Europe, USA and Asia. Here is a review of international cooperation (MoU) Agreements on research, exchange and teaching, reached with following Partners or Boards Members:






Institutional Requirements

Because the offered Joint- Postgraduate/Masters Courses must already in existence and must be fully operational at the time of a European university Consortium application to the Erasmus Mundus programme, Cairn Consortium already implements most of the options listed above as a self-sustainable joint-venture based on students personal Cultural Immersion project requests, thus fulfilling the necessary minimum preparatory activities.

A EC-/Erasmus Mundus Programme Joint-Masters Course must consist of an integrated study programme. All of these features must be fulfilled at the time of application and described in the application in technical detail. As regards the delivery of a double/multiple or joint degree, the Commission accepts an exception to this rule for the 2004 and 2005 selection rounds only: if a consortium cannot guarantee the awarding of a double/multiple or joint degree at the time of application, it has to add a declaration that it is able to do so at the time of selection (early September 2004 for the Call for Proposals relating to the academic year 2004/2005; January 2005 for the Call for Proposals relating to the academic year 2005/2006). This declaration will be checked against its truthfulness before taking a selection decision. In case of non-fulfilment of this criterion the application will be rejected.

Most of those institutional requirements thus reside in the ability and stamina of concerned European partners to abide in due time to the
prior-conditions presented in the EC-Guidelines.

Cairn/SXC Consortium HQ in KTM/Nepal can only serve the purpose of striving to become a suitable Asian/LDC platform, as required for
the Asian part from the EC- Guidelines.



Strategic Asian Target-site(s) Location

Situated in the strategic site of Boddhnath Stupa ( KTM Valley Nepal), itself a crossroad and a renown pilgrimage powerplace, Cairn Consortium is at the core of the Himalayan region outstanding beauty, as well as immerged into local religious, cultural, commercial and (post-) development issues. As a Regional HEIs/NGOs Network, Cairn also has other selected partners located in North India (Sarnath, Varanasi, Delhi and Tsopema HP), Tibet - TAR (Nyalam, Lhasa, Kham) and China (Shanghai), Thailand, Burma (Myanmar) and Bali...

From their learning, seeing, talking, listening, practicing, experiencing, traveling and discussing – Cairn programme participants will emerge from their stay with a different view of Asia, of their home country and also perhaps of themselves. For some, this will have been their first encounter with Nepalese, Tibetans or Chinese, and they will return home with much to ponder. Perhaps for some others the greatest reward will have been the friendships established with other participants, and with the local people and youth they got to know. Regardless of the respective backgrounds, Cairn will have been a meeting place for some of the brightest and most interesting students and will be remembered and valued for the rest of their lives.



Cultural Immersion

CAIRN Professional Doctorate School is a cultural immersion e-learning and communication gateway for traditional healing practitioners experiential training, development studies academic research, and postgraduate and doctorate student exchange, based in KTM Nepal.

It offers selected online courses and field-research resources focused on the Himalayan region current development priorities, as well as specializes into curriculum development in selected research niches, through practical and theoretical knowledge in building : Applied Psychology to Counselling, HRD/HRM Capacity Building, Humanitarian Intervention, Clinical Anthropology, Prospective Health Anthropology and Tibetan Traditional Healing Psychotherapy.

All Options, from Postgraduate Foundation Courses up to Doctorate Thesis are certified as ECTS/ECDL personal research projects, defined within a flexible menu. Cairn options are organized from highly selected academic and NGO resources, based in Nepal, India, Tibet TAR China, Canada, USA, UK and EU.

Cairn Professional Doctorate is a personalized development research program only and is always offered one-on-one by appointment.



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