Cairn organizes Professional  Doctorate Thesis (ECTS/ECDL) from  the opportunity provided by Directives for EU Continuous Education (Professional Training) wit a training content  based on applicants previous professional experience or renewed interest.

There are already hundreds of examples of Open Learning Online, Continuous Adult Education and Professional Postgraduates and Doctorates within the EU and British universities, not mentioning
Private Education Providers in USA, Canada, Australia and UK. 

However, none so far, have designed an integrated framework of options being a cost-effective flexible menu of EU certified credits from an experts academic units network collaboration, and being
affordable for answering the specific needs and priorities of students and trainees in Nepal/S-Asia.

Even less is being done so far for answering the EU researchers or students interest in Traditional Health or Philosophy from serious academic resources in Nepal, in such areas of ongoing studies 
in the Arts & Humanities, as Dharma, Tibetan Philosophy, Ethno-medicine or Himalayan Traditional Health.

This is why Cairn Consortium, in collaboration with the SXC/SXSSC has initiated a new platform for academic exchange and field-studies, including VLE resources with courses online, videos streaming and  education counselling database, from a selection of genuine key- resources, persons and infrastructures in situ.
 
 

Members of the CAIRN EU-Asia Network Doctorate Supervision Board

 

Function	Institutional  Status
CAIRN EU-NGO Organization Management
Cultural Immersion Coordination CAIRN CEO:
William R LEON	CAIRN/SXC KTM NP
e-Learning Mixed-Mode System Management:
Howard M-J	UWS/DACE Swansea U Wales/UK
Thesis Supervision Board (ECTS/ECDL)
Fr. William B ROBINS SJ	Director St-Xavier's College SXC/SXSSC KTM
Prof. Mike SINGLETON	President UCL/POLS/ANSO/LAAP Belgium
Prof. Ian CLEGG	ex- UWS/CDS Swansea U Wales UK
Prof. Helene HINTJEN	ex- UWS/CDS Swansea U Wales UK
Prof. Antonio GUERCI	Genova U Scarpa Ethnomedicine Unit Italy
Prof. Robert STEICHEN	UCL/PSP/ARAC Belgium (on standby)
Dr. Julie SWITAJ	Psychology Consultancy Canada (on standby)
Dr. Marco PARET	NLPIII/Hypnotherapy ISI-CNV ITaly (idem)
for other members, please go to : Consortium

The key features of Cairn Postgraduate and Doctorate degrees are:

a- the titles are different from MSc or PhD – they directly refer to a particular 
field-expertise or profession, for which credits are being gained by applicants 
who submit a personal project for a Professional Postgraduate or Doctorate
in areas of their previous professional experience or renewed interest,
such as: EdD (education), DBA (business management) , DHA 
(health anthropology) , DEC (education counselling) and other 
open disciplines certification.

b- these are designed for experienced professionals who want to do 
a PhD parttime while remaining at work and who want to proceed 
through a personalized accumulation of credits certificates.

c- their aim is to make an original contribution to professional
knowledge and professional practice through a Thesis. 

d- they are studied in the work-place on an actual problem occurring 
in the local community, as well as allow short intensive Summer and
Winter Campus organized in the EU (min 3 weeks, max 3 months),
and, of course, Cultural Immersion  Field-studies in Nepal/S-Asia.

e- they naturally involve action research and stepwise ethnographic
investigation, from which (consensual diagnosis) a problem is identified, 
an intervention project designed is initiated, some possible solutions are
devised and implemented. The joint-supervision allows effectiveness 
to be monitored by experts in the field, so as to comply with 
EU academic requirements.

f- as there is a significant conceptual, methodological and know-how
taught component in each individual project, material and references
are brought online. This allows the development of knowledge in a most
flexible and cost-effective manner in-situ, provides a focus-group cohort
identity, allow the teaching of research methods, propose the provision 
of extended open menu of related subject training, allows an easy online
sharing of experience and methodologies through forum, and encourage 
de visu (face-to-face) collective debate on common issues, experiences 
and relevance of each research topic through focused Seminars in
the specific profession or training involved. 
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