Higher Education MA

Our Higher Education MA has been built with practising university teachers in mind.

It encourages you to construct your own developmental pathway through a choice of optional modules, allowing you to graduate as a more confident university teacher with the skills and knowledge to shape professional practice.

IELTS Academic: 6.5 overall with 6.0 in Writing and 5.5 in each other element.

Postgraduate Certificate: This is built around the compulsory module of Teaching in Your Own Discipline. You will choose three optional modules that help builds your own professional pathway and suits your needs.
Postgraduate Diploma: This is based on your personal/professional development plan; you will choose three further modules that fulfil your personal and professional aims and which strengthens your activities, knowledge and professional values in your career. You will also do the compulsory module of Researching in Higher Education, which aims to help you to start thinking about how to investigate and explore issues that intrigues and challenges you in the Higher Education landscape.
Masters: For the MA, you will have to conduct a piece of independent research as part of the compulsory Research Dissertation module. This allows you to investigate an issue that you have personally selected that will contribute to your growing understanding of your professional practice.