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UndergraduateCourse summary
This dynamic full-time programme offers the opportunity to extend professional knowledge appropriate to enhancing your career profile and prospects in a range of roles relevant to your context and interests. It will give you a deeper understanding and expertise in a field of education and the global outlook, cultural fluency and importance of social change prized in today’s employment market. Appropriate to educators in a range of contexts, a focus on employability and career advancement skills explore how skills and knowledge acquired within the programme can optimise employment opportunities. Employer-led events, career guidance and introductions to organisations offering optional voluntary practical experience opportunities, mean you develop your professional profile and become well equipped to identify, accelerate and navigate career progression opportunities. Course Overview Our full-time MA Education is designed to help you gain the mastery you need, in terms of knowledge, understanding and skills, in order to respond effectively to the changes and challenges in the world of education today. It will provide a choice of themes for study and an approach to extend and develop your educational knowledge, skills and interests for specific career development paths in teaching, leadership, governance and consultancy. Modules draw on current international research, within a focused and dynamic academic community on campus and include supported opportunities to submit for publication. You get develop a deeper understanding of the field of education including the global outlook, cultural fluency and importance of social change prized in today’s employment market. Employer-led events, career guidance and introductions to organisations offer optional voluntary practical experience opportunities; develop your professional profile while studying. On this course you will...
- Join an established, world-class education department.
- Be guided by tutors who are experts in their field.
- Belong to an academic community that has a reputation for excellence.
- Complete a one year research informed masters level qualification that is recognised around the world.
- Enjoy career progression and graduate outcomes that lead to new employment opportunities.
Assessment method
Students engage in a variety of different forms of authentic assessment, to provide a creative and balanced strategy across the programme. A range of engaging and challenging opportunities, that are relevant to the needs of the workplace, allow for effective feedback to enable student success. The focus of assessments is particularly designed to be relevant to the needs and interests of you as an individual with an emphasis on the interaction between theory and practice. The programme promotes the concept of ‘assessment for learning’ through formative and summative assessment opportunities in each module. Formative Assessment is designed to help you learn more effectively by giving you feedback on your performance in order to indicate how it can be improved and sustained. The formative assessment tasks included in each module help students to make progress in terms of preparation for the summative assessment. There is a direct relationship between the formative and the summative assignment and academic skills/research skills development. Each module in semester one has a short final, summative assignment. These summative assignments draw on a range of strategies and during the course of the year. You will be assessed through literature review, construction of a critical reading log, academic poster and presentation. This aligns to the University-wide Learning Teaching and Assessment plan moving forward in terms of authentic assessment that will contribute to professional understanding and employability. The assessment of skills culminates in the longer dissertation module. At this stage in the MA, a detailed module guide will ensure that your supervisor and Personal Tutor can track and monitor your progress and provide interim feedback to support and help you.
Entry requirements
Bachelor Hons Degree 2:2 or equivalent
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
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Provider information
University of Cumbria
Registered Office
Fusehill Street
Carlisle
CA1 2HH