Program Overview

MA Education

Overview

The MA Education Online degree is designed to help you develop the skills and abilities to enhance your educational practice and effectively support students. The programme is rooted in professional experience and covers a wide range of learning, teaching, and assessment methods, materials, and technologies.

Key Facts

Entry Requirements

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent (in any discipline) plus a minimum of 6 months of professional experience in developing other people.
• In addition, you must be in a teaching or relevant student support role in HE whilst enrolled on the programme.

Duration

• 24 months (part-time online)

Study Mode Options

• Part-time

Next Start Date

• September 2025

Course Details

MA Education Online

The MA Education Online course will enable you to:

• Evaluate and apply a range of learning, teaching, and assessment methods, for face-to-face and online delivery, with large and small groups of students.
• Use learning technologies to develop effective learning materials, environments, and support systems.
• Use an innovative range of assessment techniques to support learning and enable students to monitor their own progress.
• Reflect critically on the particular challenges of learning, teaching, and assessment in your subject discipline.
• Inform your learning and teaching practice through consideration of wider contextual policy, strategy, and quality considerations.
• Engage effectively with research and scholarship in your subject discipline.
• Develop transferable skills, and professional skills and attributes.

Course Structure

• The Postgraduate Certificate Higher Education (PGCHE) contains 2 x 30 credit modules spanning across 2 terms.
• The Postgraduate Diploma Higher Education (PGDipHE) contains 2 x 30 credit modules that run concurrently across 2 terms.
• The MA Education is 1 x 60 credit module which will run across 28 weeks of the final academic year.

Year 1

• Two compulsory modules:
  • The Fundamentals of Teaching in Higher Education (30 credits)
  • Professional Practice and the Wider Context of Teaching and Learning (30 credits)

Year 2

• Compulsory module:
  • Research Methodologies (30 credits)
• Optional modules (choose one):
  • Curriculum Design and Development (Digital) (30 credits)
  • Widening Participation and Inclusive Practice (30 credits)
  • Work-based Learning (Apprenticeship and Employability) (30 credits)

Year 3

• Dissertation: a 15,000-word dissertation will be completed in the final academic year (60 credits)

Course Start Dates

September 2025

• MA Education
  • Part-time: Online

February 2026

• MA Education
  • Part-time: Online

Fees and Applying

How to Apply

Applications for this course are now open. Apply for the MA Education directly with the University.

Fees and Funding

• 2025/26 Course Fee (for courses starting on or after 1 July 2025)
  • MA Education: £13,700
  • Postgraduate Diploma Higher Education (PGDipHE): £9,150
  • Postgraduate Certificate Higher Education (PGCertHE): £4,650

By studying a Master's degree, you could be eligible for a Postgraduate Loan. If you’re a ULaw alumnus, you may be eligible to receive our £1000 Academic Master's Alumni Discount. We also have a range of scholarships and bursaries available to help you invest in your future.

International

We have students from over 120 different countries throughout our campuses, with a dedicated team to help international students.