Best career change Masters courses

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My husband is an ecologist... looks likely his whole profession will be destroyed by a combination of Tories and Brexit as they tend to consider protected species a hindrance to their profits while developing.

So any suggestions for a career change Masters course that will give him a chance of earning relatively ok money in future?

He has an ecology degree (first class) and lots of protected species licences... likes outdoor work but equally good at report writing - his written English is very good.

Thanks.

Town Planner?
Environmental Health Officer?

Both careers can be accessed via a Masters conversion course with a science degree.

This way he could still keep his hand in on environmental/science issues.

Alternatively careers like accountancy can be accessed via professional qualification routes, he may not even need to do a masters for this.

Thank you - I will look at those conversion Masters.

Maths is not his strong point so maybe not accountancy but the others sound possible.

Trees or forestry?

That sounds good too - after all, all the parties pledged to plant loads of trees. Will look at courses. Thanks.

What about law? Environmental law is a big thing.

Could law be done in a one year conversion? I don't really understand the options within law, but will look into It, thank you.

Just wondering with all these careers whether they will.go the way of ecology after Brexit, when the Tories can ditch all the legislation they don't like.

early the law conversion is a two year FT masters.

I'd disagree with you actually - I'd say it's a bit of a growth area. ESG investing is becoming a huge thing for companies and the law has nothing to do with it - it's pressure from investors. The company I work for has just hired a raft of people to analyse companies on these types of issues.

Presumably his maths must be ok- don't ecologists need to do quite a lot of statistical work around species trends etc?

Thank you for the info on the law masters.

And that is interesting, soulrunner. Yes his maths is ok but no he doesn't do statistics in his job - it is more like counting how many bats he recorded in one night. He would be more a grade C at GCSE level and not naturally confident with figures.