Can anyone help me make sense of this?
I emailed Luke Beardon to,ask how to go about this, and I've got myself in a massive flap about it and can't really understand what I've been told, and can't admit that as I'd never be allowed to enrol for an MA if I can't understand a simple email 
I was told that it was possible to take the MA as a distance learning thing without having to go to Sheffield every week.
I had this reply from Luke Beardon (I may be slightly star struck as well which is stopping my brain from working):
"there are two ways of doing this; either apply to my Post Grad Certificate via the NAS website - the next cohort is June, and it's 3 days in Manchester. Alternatively, you would need to attend evening sessions in Sheffield if you joined the MA straight away. If you chose the PGCert you could continue after onto the full MA."
I would normally understand this fine, but right now I can barely understand individual words!