MA Inclusive Education at Manchester Metropolitan University

Programme overview

Our MA in Inclusive Education invites you to explore what it truly means to create inclusive learning environments across diverse educational contexts. You’ll engage with critical perspectives on marginalisation, disability, race, culture, and difference, drawing on fields such as critical pedagogy, disability studies, and critical race theory. Grounded in disciplines including sociology, psychology, education, philosophy, and social policy, the course encourages you to reflect on your own beliefs and explore how theory and practice overlap in shaping inclusive approaches.

Faculty: Faculty of Health and Education | Department: School of Education | Duration: 1 year full-time (on campus); 2 years part-time (blended learning) | Study mode: full-time, part-time | Intake: September 2027 | Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

On your MA Inclusive Education course, you’ll explore how structural inequalities affect learners and how inclusive practice can be developed and sustained. You’ll learn to recognise where systems are not working and build the skills to respond in informed and effective ways, whether in classrooms, organisations or wider policy environments. Modules core: Key Discourses in Inclusive Education, Researching Inclusive Education, Thinking with Theory, Policy, Politics and Practice in Education, Dissertation.

Career pathways

Our MA Inclusive Education can help you progress your career, strengthen your academic skills and prepare for further research. Graduates have used the course to advance within education, move into new roles or develop specialist expertise in areas such as inclusion, diversity, autism and dyslexia.

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Application information

Entry requirements

You must have a relevant first degree, postgraduate diploma or professional qualification recognised as equivalent to an undergraduate UK honours degree of at least a 2:2. Other qualifications or experience may be considered. Advanced standing. If you’ve completed a PGCE within the last five years, you can normally join the course with advanced standing. This means you’ll put 60 credits from your PGCE towards your masters and complete less units to achieve your MA. Usually, this means you’ll complete just two core units before progressing to your dissertation. With the agreement of your programme leader, other relevant and recent level seven qualifications may also permit advanced standing. If you do not have a recent level seven qualification, you may be eligible to claim for recognition of prior experiential learning (e.g. relevant work experience). Further advice and guidance on this will be available after you enrol. English language. Applicants whose first language is not English must have IELTS with an overall score of 6.5 with no less than 5.5 in any category, or an equivalent accepted English qualification.

Intake: September 2027

Duration: 1 year full-time (on campus); 2 years part-time (blended learning)

Apply through the official page: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/course/ma-inclusive-education#how-to-apply

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