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PostgraduateCourse summary
This course is a research-based degree, in which students undertake individual research projects under close academic supervision from within the department. It can be studied full or part-time. The PhD normally takes three years of full-time research (five years part-time), after which students Areas of research include: learning and teaching; subject knowledge and understanding; information communication technology (ICT) assessment; assessment for learning; achievement; bilingualism; how children learn; gender studies; health and wellbeing; healthy schools; curriculum development in Wales and elsewhere in the UK; special educational needs; partnerships in education; community education; national and local educational policy and the impact on small schools; 14-19 learning pathway; adult education.
Modules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits) Arts Research Students must take the following centrally provided research training modules Semester 1 Research Skills And Personal Development PGM0100 Principles Of Research Design PGM0210 Ways Of Reading PGM0410 Semester 2 Research Skills And Personal Development PGM0120
Entry requirements
The minimum basic entry requirement for a MPhil or PhD is normally a good Honours Degree or its equivalent in a subject relevant to the intended area of research. Applicants whose first language is not English will require IELTS score of at least 6.5.
English language requirements
Programmes: Art; Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences; Education; History and Welsh History; Information Studies; Law (Taught LLM courses); Management and Business; Modern Languages; Welsh IELTS:6.5 with minimum 5.5 in each component TOEFL:93 with minimum component scores: Listening 17, Writing 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20. Pearson PTE: 62 with minimum scores of 51 in each component
English language requirement: Postgraduate Programmes (General)
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
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
Please visit our website for details about Postgraduate Tuition Fees.
Provider information
Aberystwyth University
Penglais
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
Wales
SY23 3FL