This masters degree will:
- enhance your awareness of education systems, traditions and issues in a number of countries
- help you to understand relationships between education and other social phenomena by introducing the concepts and skills you need for systematic comparison
- critically examine how international comparisons are used and misused in policy-making.
This masters degree provides the opportunity to:
- join one of the few specialist comparative programmes in the UK
- gain a rigorous multidisciplinary grounding in the comparative analysis of education and society
- deepen your understanding of contemporary issues in education
- access new international career opportunities
- work with an international group of students.
Anyone working or intending to work in education who wishes to understand education in a global context.
Entry requirementsA good first degree in a relevant subject.
Core topics- Education: theories and methods
- Educational traditions and systems in Europe
- Education and development in Asia Related topics
- Education policy
- Minorities, migrants and refugees in national education systems
- Planning for education and development
- Social histories of British education
- Lifelong learning: theories and perspectives.
By coursework assignments of 5,000 words, and a 20,000-word dissertation.
AttendanceFace-to-face evening sessions. Attendance may vary depending on your choice of optional modules.
Where do our students go?Graduates of this masters degree are currently working as:
- local and central government advisers
- charity managers
- researchers and lecturers.
Core modules
- Comparative Education: Theories and Methods
- Education and Development in Asia
- Education Traditions And Systems In Europe
- Minorities, Migrants and Refugees in European Education
- Education and Development in Asia
