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MA Education (campus-based)

  • DeadlineStudy Details: MA 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Top Reasons To Study

  1. Become a changemaker in the education sector by gaining the skills necessary to enact positive change and address contemporary challenges.
  2. Enhance your employability with a highly regarded MA qualification from the University of Bath, which equips you with critical skills sought after across various educational roles.
  3. Broaden your understanding of significant educational debates, including sustainable development and global citizenship, positioning yourself as a thought leader.
  4. Access diverse career opportunities in teaching, lecturing, professional training, and educational leadership, allowing you to tailor your career path to your interests.
  5. Benefit from dynamic learning experiences that combine theory and practice, preparing you for meaningful roles in both national and international educational organizations.

Masters Degree Description

Develop the skills and knowledge to become a changemaker, leader, or critical practitioner in the field of education.

Empower yourself to enact positive change in education and explore creative responses to contemporary challenges in the field.

During this course, you’ll develop key capabilities needed across a range of established and emerging areas of education, including research-informed practice. This will put you in a better position to start or advance your career in the sector.

You’ll broaden and deepen your critical awareness of current educational debates such as how to educate for sustainable futures and global citizenship. You’ll also develop the analytical and critical skills required to challenge and improve policies and practices at local, regional and global scales in a variety of contexts.

As well as this, you’ll explore a range of topics relevant to many aspects of education, which could include:

  • sustainable development and climate change
  • globalisation and international education
  • education policy
  • technology in education including AI
  • social inequality and citizenship
  • learning cultures and educational wellbeing
  • curriculum design and educational assessment

Entry Requirements

To apply for this course you may have an undergraduate degree in any subject.

You should have:

  • a bachelor’s honours degree or international equivalent, typically a high 2:2 or above or
  • a degree that is not a high 2:2 or above (or international equivalent) plus at least 2 years of relevant experience in a relevant field or sector, or
  • a teaching qualification (gained after at least the equivalent of 2 satisfactory years of higher education) plus at least 2 years of relevant experience in a relevant field or sector
  • successfully completed the 30 credit Postgraduate Certificate in International Education (PGCiE) at the University of Bath, enabling you to seek a direct transfer to the MA Education

Minimum non-graduate qualifications

  • an advanced diploma in education and at least 2 years of relevant experience, or
  • a teaching qualification (gained after at least the equivalent of 2 satisfactory years of higher education) and at least 2 years of relevant experience.

We may make an offer based on a lower grade if you can provide evidence of your suitability for the degree (for example, professional experience in education).

If your first language is not English, but within the last 2 years you completed your degree in the UK, you may be exempt from our English language requirements.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

We have a number of scholarship schemes available with a range of eligibility

Student Destinations

You will develop a range of skills that are important in many educational roles. These will help you start, or advance, your career in areas such as:

  • teaching or teaching assistant (in public, private, international, and language schools)
  • lecturing at university level
  • professional training
  • educational leadership
  • educational management and administration

You will also be prepared for positions in national and international education organisations, including learning companies, awarding organisations and governmental departments.

Module Details

Year 1

Semester 1

You'll choose one optional unit

Compulsory units

  • Educational research design
  • Educational theories and concepts: reflective and critical applications
  • Shaping educational futures

Optional units

  • Globalisation and educational policy
  • Language awareness
  • Learning and culture

Semester 2

You'll choose two optional units

Compulsory units

  • Educational research design
  • Educational theories and concepts: reflective and critical applications

Optional units

  • Education and sustainable development
  • English language curriculum and pedagogies for global contexts
  • Policy and leadership in education
  • Understanding international education

Summer

You'll complete a dissertation or consultancy project.

Optional units

  • Consultancy project
  • Dissertation

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