Education (campus-based) (Taught)

Develop the skills and knowledge to become a changemaker, leader, or critical practitioner in the field of education.

Empower yourself to enact positive change in education and explore creative responses to contemporary challenges in the field.

During this course, you’ll develop key capabilities needed across a range of established and emerging areas of education, including research-informed practice. This will put you in a better position to start or advance your career in the sector.

You’ll broaden and deepen your critical awareness of current educational debates such as how to educate for sustainable futures and global citizenship. You’ll also develop the analytical and critical skills required to challenge and improve policies and practices at local, regional and global scales in a variety of contexts.

As well as this, you’ll explore a range of topics relevant to many aspects of education, which could include:

• sustainable development and climate change

• globalisation and international education

• education policy

• technology in education including AI

• social inequality and citizenship

• learning cultures and educational wellbeing

• curriculum design and educational assessment

Gain key skills

On successful completion of this course, you'll have gained:

• a greater appreciation of innovative approaches to education

• a thorough understanding of current educational issues including those connected to equality, diversity and inclusion

• the ability to use this understanding to enhance your professional practice

• the ability to recognise ways in which research and theory are used in education and how to apply these effectively in your own academic and professional work

• analytical and critical thinking skills

• the skills to contribute effectively to the development of educational policies and practices at different levels and in a range of contexts

Apply your skills with a consultancy project

The consultancy project is an alternative to a dissertation. It offers you the opportunity to use the knowledge and research skills you’ll develop during your studies to work on an issue or strategic priority with an external organisation.

Projects are research-based and typically developed in collaboration with an organisation, such as a school, university, governmental department or education provider. This collaborative aspect means that you’ll be looking a current challenge, which will allow you to demonstrate your academic learning in a real-world context and enhance your CV.

Consultancy projects may involve activities such as:

• critical evaluation of existing policies or practices

• research-informed proposals for improvement or reform

• internationalisation-related projects

• analysis to support institutional strategy, development, or marketing

• community engagement or outreach initiatives

• critical analysis of organisational or sector-level data

Once you have designed and completed an appropriate piece of research, you’ll present your findings and recommendations as a presentation and written academic report.

Consultancy project places are limited each year. You will be supported to identify and develop a feasible project in collaboration with an organisation, either through one of our external partners or via your own professional network. If a suitable project cannot be secured, you will complete a dissertation instead.

Graduate prospects

You'll develop and enhance skills and knowledge needed for a range of established and emerging roles in the broad field of education, for example:

• teaching (in schools and other contexts)

• lecturing

• professional training

• educational leadership

• educational management and administration

• educational consultancy

• policy development

• stakeholder liaison roles

• international development

• project management

Please note: This course does not offer teaching accreditations.

• Dissertation
• Essay
• Portfolio
• Reflective assessment
• Report
• Visual or recorded presentation