| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
| 2025-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
The National MA Education (Wales) is a transformative part-time program designed for educational professionals in Wales. It equips participants with research and enquiry skills, enhances leadership capabilities, and improves professional judgment. The program is delivered through a blend of online and face-to-face sessions, providing flexibility for working professionals. Graduates will be equipped to advance their careers in education as school leaders, curriculum leaders, or other roles within the sector.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The National MA Education (Wales) is a truly transformative and sector-leading program designed for educational professionals in Wales.
Objectives:
The National MA Education (Wales) is designed to equip participants with key learning experiences to support their research and enquiry into professional practice. It enhances leadership capabilities, encourages professional autonomy, and improves professional judgment in all contexts and situations. This practice-focused emphasis equips education practitioners to act ethically, engage critically with research and practice, work collaboratively, and respond innovatively to challenges in their context.
Program Description:
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 various key stakeholders including Welsh Government, ensures that all education professionals in Wales have the same high-quality opportunity to enhance their professional knowledge, engage with research, and improve their professional practice.
Outline:
The National MA Education (Wales) is a 3-year part-time program. There is no full-time option.
Module Descriptions:
The program consists of 200 hours of study per 20 credit module, of which 22 will be contact hours. Learning is a blend of online and face-to-face sessions. Activities include lectures, seminars, group activities, and individual activities.
National Conferences Delivery Days:
Term 1: October 21st and November 18th Term 2: February 10th and March 9th Term 3: June 22nd and July 13th
Year 1 (Level 7T):
Compulsory Modules: - Collaborative and Professional Practice - Evidence-Informed Practice - Pedagogy and Practice
Year 2 (Level 7T):
Students choose 60 credits from the following options: - Advanced Research and Enquiry Skills - Guidance - Emotional Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing - Exploring Pedagogies - Inclusive Classroom Practice - Leading and Managing Education Professionals - Leading Organisational Change - Curriculum Design and Realisation - Equity and Diversity - Leadership and Management of ALN - Leading Within and Across Education Systems - Additional learning needs, Excellence in Practice - Responding to the Effects of Poverty and Disadvantage in Education - Curriculum Leadership and Innovation
Year 3 (Level 7T):
Compulsory Modules: - Dissertation
Assessment:
All coursework assignments 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.
Teaching:
The program is taught by experts in education with a wealth of knowledge and experience. The program is delivered through a blend of online and face-to-face sessions, providing flexibility for working professionals.
Careers:
The National MA Education (Wales) is designed for educational professionals who have already embarked on their career. Graduates of the program will be equipped with the knowledge, skills, and professional development to advance their careers in education as school leaders, curriculum leaders, or other roles within the education sector.
Tuition Fees - Year 1 UK £ 3,250 International N/A