Our MA Education provides a thorough grounding in educational research and practice, encompassing teaching, mentoring, training and management.  You’ll receive high-quality research and career training, preparing you for doctoral study or new challenges in your professional career – with the ultimate focus of improving the life chances of children in your care.

Choose from a wide range of modules spanning topics which explore current educational research, led by research-active lecturers. Throughout your studies, we’ll support your development of academic literacies, helping you become more fluent and knowledgeable in the way you learn to read, write and talk about academic ideas. Develop your critical thinking as you explore theoretical perspectives, ideas and concepts in education, investigating the foundations that shape how you were educated, and how you educate others. You’ll reflect on your own professional experience and explore how research informs practice in settings that you already know – and those that you don’t – such as educational systems in other countries, new trends, and ideas in education.

Excellent links with local schools help to ensure that our employment rates are consistently high. 99.5% of our graduate leavers are in work or further study within 15 months of the end of their course. Of those working full time, 97% are in graduate-level roles.

Our students are interested in teaching, training, coaching and mentoring. They work in early years settings, primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, community education and health education.

Others bring their educational skills to the worlds of business, culture, art, healthcare, human resources, adult learning and further varied fields, or pursue our EdD and PhD doctoral programmes