MA Education (Wales) ALN at Wrexham University

Programme overview

The MA Education (Wales) Additional Learning Needs is a three-year part-time pathway of the national master's, focusing on inclusive education and ALN practice across school and further education settings in Wales. Delivered as a national programme by seven Welsh universities for educational professionals in Wales, using online learning and face-to-face National Saturdays.

Department: Education | Duration: 3 years part-time | Intake: September 2027 | Study mode: part-time | Location: Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year 1 (replaceable by RPL/RPEL of 60 PGCE credits): Pedagogy and Practice, Collaborative and Professional Practice, Evidence-Informed Practice (20 credits each). Year 2: Advanced Research and Enquiry Skills (core), Inclusive Education: Theory, Policy and Practice and Leading Change for Excellent Inclusive and ALN Practice (20 credits each), including the ALNCo role. Year 3: Dissertation (core).

Career pathways

The degree develops research knowledge and skills so graduates can evaluate and improve professional practice and supports system-wide leadership capacity and retention of education professionals in Wales; the four pathways are Additional Learning Needs, Leadership, Curriculum and Equity in Education.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Applicants must work in a Welsh maintained school, be educated to degree level or equivalent, be registered with the Education Workforce Council (maintained throughout the programme), and be employed on at least a 0.4 FTE contract (long-term supply contracts count). Applicants should where possible have the support of their head teacher or equivalent. Funding eligibility: early-career practitioners in years 3-6 of teaching at the start of the programme, initial teacher education partner school staff, teaching assistants meeting the academic entry requirements, school improvement partners, regional consortia, Estyn, local authority and middle-tier staff, and ALNCOs (including FE); the years 3-6 criterion does not apply to the ALN or Leadership pathways. Applicants complete the direct application plus the MA Education supplementary application form, or the Recognition of Prior Learning form if claiming RPL. On this pathway the workplace may include a Welsh further education institution.

Intake: September 2027

Duration: 3 years part-time

Apply through the official page: https://evision.glyndwr.ac.uk/urd/sits.urd/run/siw_ipp_lgn.login?process=siw_ipp_app&code1=MAPEDALXXTO1D&code2=0003

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