MSc Education (Teaching and Learning)

Programme overview

Our education master's degrees give you the opportunity to design a tailored programme of study that suits your learning and professional needs. You will be able to specialise and receive an award in a particular disciplinary area.

This pathway is designed for those with an interest in teaching and learning and working with learners in educational settings across the sector. It is particularly suitable if you already hold master's-level credits from a teaching qualification, such as a PGCE, and want to build on this foundation for your professional development.

In common with other MSc Education students, you will take the compulsory research methods unit, Introduction to Educational Inquiry, and write a dissertation. You will also take the compulsory unit, Contemporary Perspectives in Learning, which is core to your pathway. You can choose the rest of your units from across the programmes offered by the school. Your final choice of units will be made after consulting with tutors so that your choice is as coherent and useful as possible, as well as suiting your individual needs.

Careers

We offer academic and personal development opportunities to equip you for the intellectual, social and personal challenges you will encounter during your career.

Our overarching goal is to enable our education graduates to display the following characteristics:

• equipped to demonstrate impact, excellence and distinctiveness in your chosen field;
• visionary, imaginative, innovative, reflective and creative;
• high ideals and values, including a strong sense of social justice;
• highly employable throughout the world;
• adaptable, with the potential to be a leader in work and in the community.

An upper second-class honours degree (or international equivalent) and at least one year's full-time paid professional teaching experience (or part-time over two years) or a PGCE, usually obtained within the last five years. Non-traditional qualifications/routes will also be considered.