MSc PG Dip PG Cert Education

A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in a relevant discipline.

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This broad programme can open up a similarly diverse range of career opportunities.

Past students have undertaken further study and doctoral research, while others have applied their knowledge and skills to a variety of education-related fields, from educational policy and administration and school teaching, to recruitment, charity-related educational research and political advisory roles.

You will graduate with a highly-regarded degree and transferable skills in areas such as communication and project management, which can be applied to roles in any field.

The following are examples of where our previous students have progressed to:

• work in educational policy (at local, regional, national and international level)
• work in educational administration (at local, regional, national and international level)
• advisors to politicians on educational matters
• international recruitment for higher education institutions in Scotland and for institutions or agencies around the world
• returning to teaching – primary, secondary schools, physical education or within ‘additional support’ contexts
• research work for charitable agencies related to education
• doctoral research (PhD)
• community education practitioners

Compulsory courses:

• Education Policy and the Politics of Education
• The Philosophy of Education
• Sources of Knowledge: Understanding and analysing research literature
• Conceptualising research: Foundations, assumptions and praxis

Option courses:

Optional courses are subject to change each year but have previously included:

• Autism and Developmental Disabilities
• Child and Adolescent Development
• Children and Technology
• Comparative Analysis in Education
• Comparative Education and International Development
• Designing, Delivering and Evaluating Training
• Gifted and Talented Youth
• Global Childhoods and Human Rights
• Learners, Learning and Teaching
• Pedagogy and Practice of Friedrich Froebel for the early years
• Psychology of Learning and Teaching
• Qualitative Data Research
• Quantitative Data Analysis with SPSS
• Social Inequalities in Education Worldwide
• The Anthropology of Education and Learning
• The Curriculum: Context, Change and Development
• The Nature of Enquiry