This masters degree will:
- enable you to analyse and reflect on your professional experience
- examine new developments in policy and practice
- give you the skills to become a successful leader
- help you to create and sustain change.
This masters degree provides the opportunity to:
- comprehend, analyse, debate and evaluate viewpoints
- improve your research literacy and research skills
- develop your expertise in curriculum development, teaching and learning and assessment practices.
Professionals in education – for example, teachers, lecturers, inspectors or those working for government agencies.
Entry requirementsA good first degree, plus an approved teaching qualification or appropriate professional experience.
Core topics- Curriculum design and development
- Education research
- Assessment issues and practice
- Assessment for learning.
- Effective learning
- Teaching and learning in classrooms.
By 5,000-word coursework assignments and a 20,000-word dissertation or 10,000-word report.
AttendanceFace-to-face evening and occasional Saturday sessions. Some modules are also available online.
Where do our students go?Graduates of this masters degree are currently working as:
- heads of department, deputy heads and headteachers in UK schools
- curriculum developers in government education departments
- university lecturers and researchers.
Core modules
- Curriculum Design and Development
- Assessment for Learning
- Assessment: Issues and Practice
- Educational Testing
- Guiding Effective Learning And Teaching
- Teaching And Learning In Classrooms And Schools
