Study Details: 3 Years Part-time
The National MA Education (Wales) will ensure that all education professionals in Wales have the same high-quality opportunity to enhance their professional knowledge, engage with research, and to improve their professional practice.
Candidates must hold Qualified Teacher Status (except in exceptional circumstances) and be currently employed in the compulsory education sector in the UK. The course is also open to those working as lecturers in FE colleges, ITE partner school staff, Teaching Assistants who meet the academic entry requirements for the programme, School Improvement Partners, Regional Consortia staff, Estyn and Local Authority staff.
Please upload the following to your online application:
Evidence of your DfES Number – official letter from the teaching council
Reference on institution/company letter headed paper
See our website for fees
Students who have completed a PGCE with 60 credits at Level 7 are likely to be exempt from the first year of study. Those students who do not have this award will study three modules in the first year:
Pedagogy and Practice
Collaboration and Professional Practice
Evidence-Informed Practice
Year 2 will see students taking one core module , alongside any 2 optional modules (all 20 credits)
Advanced Research Enquiry Skills (core)
Optional modules:
Leadership and Management of ALN
Inclusive Classroom Practice
Leading and Managing Education Professionals
Leading Organisational Change
Curriculum Design and Realisation
Curriculum Leadership and Innovation
Exploring Pedagogies
Emotional and Mental Wellbeing
Equity and Diversity
Responding to Poverty and Disadvantage in Education
ALN: Excellence in Practice
Leading Within and Across Systems
The third and final year will see students focus on their dissertation.
Dissertation
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