MA Professional Practice in Education

This course gives you the opportunity to have your previous learning recognised or accredited through the RPL or APL process.You’ll study modules focusing on critical and contemporary issues in education and research methods, before completing a dissertation or extended project with a focus on professional practice in education.This course is designed to enable you to progress from a professional postgraduate programme, for example where you gained Level 7 credits during your PGCE teacher training course. Your PGCE provides the foundation to progress to explore modules in critical and contemporary issues in education, and in research methods. You will learn to analyse complex educational issues, essential for any developing education professional, and root this learning in your own practice and context. You will also enhance your skills as an educational researcher, essential to enhance your career development and hone your abilities as a reflective and critical practitioner.Finally, you’ll complete an independent research project, supported by faculty staff and resources gaining hands-on experience and a strong foundation for your educational career. You might choose to explore an issue in your own classroom, school or setting, or something pivotal to your school development plan. Or you might research an area of personal passion and interest in education, or an aspect of pedagogy or andragogy that will help you (and others) to enhance key aspects of practice.We offer modules in both the daytime and evenings, so you can find a pattern of delivery that fits with your other commitments, whether you are working or volunteering.If you have recently completed your Early Career Teacher phase, you can ask us to recognise this learning in lieu of a further 30 Masters level credits, meaning that with your PGCE (60 credits) you can enter our Masters in Professional Practice in Education half way through. You will then complete the research methods module (30 credits) and an extended research project (or dissertation) (60 credits).Whatever route you take into this degree you will pay fees for the modules that you undertake, so a proportion of the overall total MA fee advertised.

The applicant should have 60 credits at level 7 (i.e. a relevant PG Cert), which will be recognised or accredited towards the full MA. An example of this might include: Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) Post graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PCAP) Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PG Cert HE) Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Additional entry requirements for this course Those with a postgraduate-level qualification in a related professional field will be considered on an individual basis. In order to ensure our students have a rich learning and student experience, most of our programmes have a mix of domestic and international students. We reserve the right to close applications early to either group if application volumes suggest that this blend cannot be achieved. Typical offer: 2:2 in a relevant subject area.