Postgraduate Taught programme

MA Education

This MA Programme supports your personal professional development as well as enhancing research skills, as essential preparation for the completion of an independent research project on a relevant topic of your choice.

On this pathway you will develop comprehensive, theoretical, research-informed knowledge and understanding of diverse educational perspectives. Key themes include the nature and application of theory in education, a critical appreciation of educational research, the evolution of education policy, and the theory and practice of social justice.

MA Education (Early Years)

This pathway combines perspectives from early years education, and other relevant disciplines, to ensure you can deliver highly effective practice in today’s multi-dimensional early childhood environment. You will engage in cutting-edge research and enhance your understanding of the nature of educational enquiry and the analytical processes that support research-informed practice. This pathway will enhance your capacity to make thoughtful and reflective decisions, in creating an environment that nurtures playful pedagogies and rich learning experiences for early years children.

MA Education (Sport, Education and Mental Health)

This pathway brings together perspectives from sport, education and mental health to enable you to make a meaningful difference across schools, communities and performance settings. You will explore how physical activity, wellbeing and inclusive practice can enhance life chances, supported by contemporary, research-informed approaches.

You will engage in cutting-edge educational and wellbeing research, developing a critical understanding of how sport and mental health can be used to support learning, resilience and participation. This pathway will enhance your capacity to make thoughtful, reflective and evidence-based decisions, enabling you to design, lead and evaluate practice that improves lives locally and globally.

MA Education (Special Educational Needs)

This pathway will enable you to develop a coherent and critical understanding of the causal and developmental nature of ‘labels’ of SEND, including the role and impact of stakeholders, the effectiveness of policy, and different approaches and organisational structures which impact upon inclusivity for learners with SEND. Developing critical considerations for inclusive practice, and gaining an in-depth knowledge and understanding of barriers to learning, are also key features of this course.

Part-time provision also delivered at Holy Cross College.

MA Education Children's and Young Peoples Mental Health

MA Education (Children and Young People’s Mental Health)

This pathway explores different conceptualisations of children and young people’s mental health, examines the risk and protective factors which inﬂuence mental health, and considers the beneﬁts of a whole organisational approach to mental health. You will also engage in meaningful and impactful research and enhance your understanding of the nature of educational enquiry and the analytical processes that support research-informed practice.

MA Education (Leadership)

This pathway examines the changing relationship between education policies and leadership practice and explores how to identify, initiate, and implement positive change in a range of educational settings. You will consider how educational leaders guide others to success, build new bridges and steer collective action towards justice, equity, and inclusion in education.

SpLD (Dyslexia) with AMBDA/ATS

Postgraduate Taught programme

MA Education programme

Postgraduate Certificate