MA Education at University of Cumbria

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.

Faculty: Institute of Education, Arts and Society  |  Duration: Full-time: 1 Year  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September  |  Location: Carlisle, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

This is an internationally recognised one-year advanced study master's degree (QAA, 2020). It is three semesters long (36 weeks) and consists of four, short 30 credit modules and one longer 60 credit dissertation module. Modules include: Theories of Education Learning; Education Policy; Leading Advanced Professional Learning; Challenging Disadvantage; Critical Analysis of Theory and Practice.

Career pathways

Current and future career prospects for successful graduates of this programme are excellent. This is based on the University’s employment data for our existing part-time programme (100% in the last academic year).

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