Overview
Master of Education with Specialisms.
Summary
The Master of Education degree is a professional development course for teachers and other adult educators, who wish to update their knowledge and qualifications. The award has been developed in conjunction with the teaching community and is designed to ensure you will have the opportunity to explore contemporary issues in education which impact upon your own professional practice. The full master's programme will normally take you up to 3 years to complete, but you can exit with the Postgraduate Certificate (normally after 1 year) or Postgraduate Diploma (normally after 2 years).
About
If you are currently working in a teaching or training environment and you wish to build on the qualifications and experience you already have, then this course is for you. You will enter at the Postgraduate Diploma level and undertake modules worth 120 credits for your Postgraduate Diploma award and a further 60 credits for your MEd award.
If, after completing 60 credits, you wish to exit the course, you can do so with a Postgraduate Certificate award.
This is summarised below:
Year 1
Award: Postgraduate Certificate (exit award only)
Modules: 2 modules of 30 credits
Accumulated credits: 60
Year 2
Award: Postgraduate Diploma
Modules: 2 modules of 30 credits
Accumulated credits: 120
Year 3
Award: MEd
Modules: 1 modules of 60 credits (Dissertation)
or
2 modules of 30 credits to include the Research Project module
Accumulated credits: 180
Please note that this award does not qualify you as a teacher.
Teaching and learning assessment
The variety of teaching, learning and assessment methods and approaches used throughout the course enable students to develop flexible, appropriate and creative and/or entrepreneurial approaches to the resolution of problems within their professional work roles and also in terms of their own personal professional development. The intentional building of communities of learning via synchronous and non-synchronous discussion boards, combined with an interactive approach to the face to face seminars, along with the use of guest lecture sessions facilitate this.