Cairn Options offer opportunities in three main avenues for Non-Credits strategic sites exploration, and Academic Credits ECTS/ECDL Postgraduate and Thesis Certification.
CAIRN  Education Counselling Center Online will assist higher education students, 
trainees and/or researchers in making rational and cost-effective decisions,
while reviewing the process and curriculum options, presented hereunder :
 
 

General  Programme  Options  (*)

(c) RWL 2004-05 (adapted draft- only)

(SXSSC), Nepal Institute for Health Science (NIHS), RECID (TU/IOM), KUNPHEN Tibetan Medical Center, KAILASH Tibetan Medical Center (Amchi Jampa), and/or other selected  intervenors and community support groups, Cairn offers a unique choice of true experiential and professional opportunities for thesis researchers, postgraduate students, professionals and/or international volunteers, including the possibility to enjoy the amazing beauty of the Himalayan region nature, rich culture and real involvement with people in daily life.

Given that this programme is fundamentally about creating and expanding new and sustainable structural opportunities for students, researchers and trainees to share and upgraded their knowledge, attitude and awarenness, it will remain flexible and based upon students projects,  within a Menu of Open Learning ECTS/ECDL Options. While the present set of priorities range from ‘Human Resource Development’ (HRD), ‘e-Marketing Online Curriculum Development’ and other technical market-driven categorisations,  emphasis is being brought to cover areas being: Social/Health Anthropology, Clinical Anthropology, Psychotherapy, Ethnomedicine, Drug Abuse Counselling Training, Tsa-rLung Tibetan Medicine Energotherapy, Tantras, Philosophy,Languages, Arts & Humanities, Investigation Journalism and other more precise topics which may be developed without limitations by students or trainees in order to address their objectives.

Responding to the needs of future relations between Europe and Asia, Cairn Erasmus will seek,  encourage and support Projects that reflect the urgent need for more awareness on LDCs priorities. For doing so, it has taken steps since several years to gather a core of respected/experienced EU and Asian scholars and interveners, who all are involved on a daily basis in universities and NGOs services in/with least developed Asian countries (LDC) and who bring the much needed constructive but critical appraisal tools and resources for an effective cooperation. While focusing on the evaluation of the past for fostering the future, Cairn original approach is in the two-fold nature of its Curriculum Options studying as much the European and Asian spiritual heritage values, than personality or modern e-technology. 

Following  the recent European Commission  decisions, the new Erasmus Mundus programme
partnerships will be developed to strengthen European/Asian co-operation and international links in higher education by supporting high-quality  European/Asian   Joint-curriculum Masters Courses, enabling students and visiting scholars to engage in postgraduate study 
at European universities, as well as by encouraging the outgoing mobility of European students and scholars towards third Asian countries.

The CAIRN new scheme will proceed using both Cultural Immersion (Tour&Study) in selected strategic sites in Asia, as well as the usual combination of online courses, lectures, seminars, group work and practical fieldwork, including a dissertation. Students will be continuously assessed by tutors online on the basis of their essays, report writing and presentation of portfolios. There are no examinations for this programme, as the final aim is based on personalized experiential and tailored project which fulfilment will require genuine and continuous efforts on the ground...
 
 

Tibetan Medicine   Materia  Medica,  Tantra Philosophy, 
Psychotherapy & Counselling  Research Study Options

_________________ Guidelines ________________

Level 1- is a 30 days long Cultural Immersion Tour & Introduction to Tibetan Medicine, 
(for  details on options, click here on : Tibetan Medicine Introduction Tours&Field-studies, 

Level 2- is a three-months indepth training cum field-research into either Tibetan Medecine,
Philosophy or Psychology, this last option including Dzog-Chen, Tsa-rLung, Tantras
and other inputs relevant to professional psychotherapy training,
(see other links for details, hereunder)

Level 3- is a four-year long Postgraduate and/or  Doctorate Thesis (Option ECTS/ECDL),
divided into 3 distincted postgraduate modules, between 1 to 2 years each.
(see other links for details, hereunder)
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_________________ General Conditions ________________

Courses Title & Level	Commencement	Duration	Fees
Level 1
Cultural Immersion Tour & Studies " Introduction Program ": 15 to 45 days	Starts in April 2004 onwards, and remains  open learning / flexible entry certification	minimum 15 days > in Nepal	euros 1850 (equ USD)
		21 days >	2050
		30 days >	2300
		45 days >	2800
Level 2
Three-months duration training cum field-research	Similar to Level 1, starts in April 2004 onwards,	upto 3 months in KTM/Nepal >	3800
	fees conditions are always based on personal project!
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Level 3
One to four-year long Postgraduate and/or  Prof-Doctorate Thesis	from April 2004 onwards, open learning / year based visas academic supervision
Study visas will apply if duration is more than 3 months study  in Nepal	Projects being more than 3 months and upto 1 year may may be provided study-visa
		First year entry	3800
		For any years > thereafter !	750/yr (each yr)
		Last year Thesis	950/th
Study & Research Visa
Visa costs to add/per yr	HMG Nepal Study Visa costs	HMG Immigration	750/yr
Living Costs
Living costs upto 3 months are included in Total Fees	Costs cover Bed&Breakfast/ Half-board in Guesthouse
FOOTNOTE: LIVING COSTS AFTER 3 MONTHS ARE NOT WITHIN CAIRN/SXC FEES, BUT ARE PERSONAL COSTS	After the first 3 months, all participants are proposed  residential condition on basis of their project resources
Detailed Conditions	Please contact Cairn CEO
Payment Options	10% discount on one off payments, Training course fees must be paid in full
Payment Method	Cash Cheque Bankers Draft Postal Order Payment by your friends and relatives in the UK, the EU or USA

for more details on  Tibetan Medicine Curriculum  R&D  Options, please click here!
 

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, travelling 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.

Personalized project's tutoring/coaching will enhance participant’s ability to understand 

 
 

CAIRN  Innovative  Pedagogy

(Tentative Itinerary & Process)

During 28 days minimum and to upto 4-5 months maximum, motivated high school students or researchers being gathered from various parts of Canada, UK, the United States and Europe, will come to Bodhanath Stupa - KTM to live, study, practices and travel together in the whole of the Himalayan range, exploring a very different culture and lifestyle, and a very different perceptions of people and themselves.  They will experience both the traditions and changes that make the Stupa of Bodhanath so distinctive and so important for being able to grasp and understand insights of the present things, and things to come, in a variety of ways enabling them to understand what they see. 

Participants will choose from a wide variety of online courses, or bring a personal research theme, allowing them to gain an understanding of some of the key concepts, background and methodology of some of the controversial topics that are at the forefront of the changes sweeping through Nepal, Tibet, China and India. From the meeting of these prerequisite with their experiential, they will be in position to appreciate the deep traditions and history that underlie everything that happens in the Himalayan region and around. 

Students and researchers will work with qualified NGOs experts, academic tutors of repute and the young local generation to undertake different field studies and investigate for themselves the key issues of their projects. Coaching, supervision and daily briefings, sometimes discussed in classes is an important aspect of the quality of experiential. Through extensive opportunities they will meet and talk with a wide range of people, from lamas, artists, businessmen, NGOs or HEIs officials, to ordinary shopkeepers, youth and workers, by visiting villages, urban homes, SMEs small enterprise workplaces, local NGOs, monasteries, temples, schools, they will compare what they learn in class with what they experience themselves. This combination of high-level academic instruction with project-based investigative learning, discussions and debates, and online broadband interaction with database online is what will make Cairn programme a unique opportunity, in a unique place.

Face to face language tutorials in Nepalese, Indi, Tibetan and/or Chinese are made available as options for those who seek the abilities which will allow them to share, understand, develop, or hone their skills in close contact with local people.

Demolition of the old and construction of the new are everywhere, including the effects of the ongoing Maoists insurgency. This is the time to register what Nepalese, Tibetan and Chinese people are feeling, living through and hoping for now.  Students will forever be referring to this experience by saying, "When I studied there, this is what Nepal was like…."