Program Overview

The National MA Education (Wales) is a truly transformative and sector leading programme for educational professionals in Wales, from early career teachers to senior leaders. The educational landscape in Wales is changing rapidly. Teaching not only requires the mastery of a complex set of skills to guide, motivate, and facilitate student learning, but also the ability to enquire into professional practice in order to improve it. The National MA Education (Wales) - which has been collaboratively developed by seven universities in Wales, through direct engagement with a variety of key stakeholders including Welsh Government - will ensure that all education professionals in Wales have the same high-quality opportunity to enhance their professional knowledge, engage with research, and to improve their professional practice.

KEY COURSE FEATURES

• The national programme is delivered across Wales by seven Welsh universities working together to provide the National Master’s at local centres across Wales
• The programme reflects the key education priorities in Wales and looks outwards to draw upon the expertise of internationally recognised guest lecturers
• The programme is delivered using a blended approach of online learning and three face-to-face National Saturdays each semester where teachers can get together to exchange their experiences of best practice
• Teachers with an undergraduate QTS qualification can gain their degree in three years of part-time study
• Teachers who have gained 60 M level credits during their PGCE QTS programme can enter the degree programme in the second year of study and complete in two years
• The programme is available for delivery and assessment bilingually in collaboration with university partners with the relevant subject expertise in Welsh and English.

Teaching

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.

Support

Students on this course will join students on the same course at 6 other HEIs. There will be peer-to-peer support hosted on the WG Hwb, alongside all the regular USW support services and mechanisms.

Assessment

Assessments are all coursework assignments and will be submitted at the end of each module. Wherever possible, assignments have been designed to complement the working contexts and schedules of full-time teachers.

CAREER PROSPECTS

This course is for educational professionals who have already embarked on their career.