MA Education (Special Educational Needs)

Its modular structure allows you to personalise your choice of units and progress at a pace that best suits you, with a final phase focused on educational research via a dissertation.

The course engages you with key issues in education and aims to encourage your evidence-based practice, supporting you to make direct and meaningful connections between your studies and your own experiences and aspirations.

You broaden your knowledge of educational ideas and research findings, as you identify and justify recommendations for further action, placing you in a better position to develop as a classroom practitioner or school leader.

Why choose this course?

• It is part-time with blended learning (face-to-face sessions as well as online support and activities) which supports you to work around your other commitments
• Take the opportunity to engage in structured and supported distance learning through two optional units focusing on behavioural and literacy difficulties
• Benefit from assessments based around needs specific to your role in your educational organisation
• Explore the process of teaching, learning support and/or educational leadership, focusing on personal, academic and vocational interests relevant to your educational context
• Gain from undertaking primary research that informs your current practice and gives you the skills to engage in future research
• Study a Master’s that provides a clear progression route following completion of your initial teacher education (ITE) course; develops both you and the organisation within which you work; and could be used as the basis for further study at Doctoral level (PhD and EdD).