Hi everyone!
This is a cover letter I have written to apply for some courses in an English University.
Would you mind checking if there are some mistakes?
Any tips, advice or suggestions will be very appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
Herewith, I would like to express my interest in taking part in the following modules as short scheme courses: Gender and Social Development, Project Planning and Management and Research Methods.
I graduated in Education 2 years ago and, before and after my degree, I spent many months in India.
I went there to have some pre-lauream and post-lauream training.
All these training were within educational projects as I decided to study Education to improve education facilities and projects in developing countries.
Therefore, after my degree and after some experiences in those countries, I am now considering to apply for a Master, possible an MSc, in Education.
In the near future, I would like to work in international cooperation and to give a valuable support in the educational area.
The 3 courses I have decide to apply for will give me a in depth and strong knowledge of main importance themes within the educational area.
The course Gender and Social Development would let me widen the central role the dynamics between genders play in a developing country. The access to education and work to women is the key factor which let societies effectively improve. Therefore, every development project in such countries should consider what the output and benefit would be for women.
The course in Project Planning and Management would give me the technical know-how/skills to set a project so that the aims of the project can be achieved. Despite my education background, I dont know anything about project management nor its steps, in order to realize a valuable project and, therefore, I cant give my total support in educational project. Indeed, while my stays in Indian NGOs, I realized how a mismanagement of people and money along with poor organization of the project can put to waste all the hard efforts the team put into its realization.
Therefore, I believe that a knowledge of this issue is something any development professional should have.
In order to plan an effective development project, its crucial to discover the real needs of the people who would benefit from the project.
Its then important a good command of both qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
While my stays in developing countries I have often, more or less in depth, got in touch with NGOs which tried to pursue and to implement educational project, with children and woman.
Although all their efforts were really valuable and noble, the projects themselves were badly conceived. The people who worked on creating or improving a rural school, were not able to single out whether the project they were about to establish was something the people really needed nor to assess the feedback of their educational project. Consequentially, the goodwill of their efforts could be totally invalidated by the results because, maybe, the project they wanted to develop didnt match at all the needs of the people of that area. All these reasons underline the crucial role played by a good research methodology. This is way I would be very delighted to study the Research Methods course. What I often realized during my experiences abroad, was that, unfortunately, the same accuracy that was put into micro financial or rural development projects was not put in educational projects.
For all the above raisons, I think I could not ask more than doing these courses in university specialized in Development Studies, as the XXXXX is.
I would like to thank you in advance for considering my application and I am looking forward to your response.
Sorry if it’s so long!
I know it’s long but I am asked to write a 500-word statement.
‘all these traing were’ should be’ all this training was’
‘Its then important a good command of both qualitative and quantitative research techniques. ‘ this sentence doesnt quite make sense to me im not sure what you are trying to saying
‘While my stays in developing countries ‘ try , ‘while staying in developing countries’
‘For all the above raisons,’ spelling! ‘for all the above reasons’
apart from that it seems good to me!!!
good luck!
