Course summary
The information provided on this page was correct at the time of publication (November 2023). For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucas. The MSc Education (Higher Education) at the University of Oxford is aimed at future academic, policy, and practitioner leaders in higher education (HE). It provides a critical introduction to research, theory, and policy in this complex field, taking into account a range of national, international and global lenses. During this full-time course, you will have the opportunity to consider a wide range of issues that higher education systems, and, more broadly, tertiary education systems, around the world are facing today. These include:
- the social and economic contributions of HE
- graduate employment and employability
- access and widening participation
- equity and social and epistemic justice
- fees and funding;
- student mobility
- ‘research on research’
- the relationship between HE and vocational and technical education and training
- institutional governance
- rankings.
- Higher Education: Systems, Structures and Institutions
- Higher Education in the Economy and Society
- Global Higher Education
- Foundations of Educational Research 1: Concepts and Design
- Foundations of Educational Research 2: Strategies and Methods
- Core Principles of Child Assessment
- Critical Digital Innovation
- Education, the Internet and Society
- Intermediate Quantitative Research
- Perspectives and Debates in Qualitative Research
- Researching with the South: Decolonizing communication practices in education research
- The Implementation of the Rights of Children
Entry requirements
For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucas
Fees and funding
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Provider information
University of Oxford
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