Education (Wales) MA / MA Education (Wales)

Program Overview

The course is 3 years part-time. There is no full-time option.

Students who have completed a PGCE with 60 credits at Level 7 are likely to be exempt from the first year of study. Those students who do not have this award will study three modules in the first year:

In Year 2, students will take the core Advanced Research Enquiry Skills module, alongside any 2 optional modules. All the modules are 20 credits:

The third and final year will focus on the core Dissertation module (60 credits).

Program Outline

Teaching

There will be 200 hours of study per 20 credit module, of which 22 will be contact hours. Learning will be a blend of online and face-to-face. Activities will be a combination of lectures, seminars, group activities and individual activities.

Students will join their peers on the same course at the six other universities for some synchronous online sessions to develop a national learning community.

Assessment

Assessments are all coursework assignments and will be submitted at the end of each module. There will be one assessment per module.