This Master’s degree engages you with key issues in education and aims to encourage your evidence-based practice, as you make direct and meaningful connections between the course and your own experiences and aspirations.
It broadens your knowledge of educational ideas and research findings, prompting you to identify and justify recommendations for further action. This places you in a better position to develop your work as a classroom practitioner or school leader.
Intermediate qualifications available:
- Postgraduate certificate – 60 credits at Master’s level
- Postgraduate diploma – 120 credits at Master’s level
Why choose this course?
- Its modular structure allows you to personalise your choice of units and progress at a pace that best suits you
- Explore the process of teaching, learning support and/or educational leadership, focusing on personal, academic and vocational interests relevant to your educational setting
- Benefit from an enrichment programme of guest speakers, visits and placement opportunities
- Progress your study in education, for example following your initial teacher education course
- Complete assessments based around your role in your educational organisation, with a final phase focused on educational research via a dissertation
- Support developments within the organisation where you work
- Undertake primary research that informs your current practice
- Acquire the necessary research skills to engage in future research
- Be prepared for further study at doctoral level (PhD and EdD)