Education MA

Continuing Professional Development for Educational Professionals

The University offers a wide range of programmes, courses and activities for qualified teachers and the wider education workforce to enable them to enhance their professional practice and broaden their knowledge about contemporary issues whilst gaining accreditation in a range of qualifications, from Foundation Degree through to Postgraduate Certificate, PostgraduateDiploma or a full Master's qualification. Our MA (Education) now offers three pathways (Leadership and Management, Inclusion and Curriculum) with a choice of modules. We also offer an MA (Mathematics Education). Our growing national and international portfolio enables the University to offer short courses, consultancy, project management, research and evaluation work to support all education professionals. We can deliver customised packages in different locations, according to their need. Conferences with seminars and workshops are also a popular feature of our provision. The University has developed a range of strategic partnerships, locally, nationally and internationally to support and endorse our work.

Course Information

The MA Education (MA(Ed)) is a flexible, well-established and successful programme that combines professional relevance with academic rigour in its examination and researching of practice nationally and in schools, colleges and other educational organisations.

The programme is modular with modules available (on a cyclical basis). There is a general pathway - all have to do research on:

• Curriculum
• Inclusion
• Leadership and Management
• Research.

The twin purposes of the MA(Ed) are to enable teachers and other education professionals to:

• Engage in critical reasoning and reflection-in-action, while deepening their understanding of situations at classroom, institution and national levels
• Gain substantial and sustained opportunity to engage with the research of others, as well as design, produce and disseminate their own.

Indicative Course Content

Core Modules:

Two on educational research, one of which must be either 'Introducing Research' or 'Practitioner Research' or possibly 'Independent Study', plus 'Research Seminars' taken as a sixth module. Some of the Current Modules, from which four may be chosen:

• Alternative Educational/Arts Therapies
• An Integrative Approach to Supporting Pupils with Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties
• Critical Pedagogies: Contemporary Educational Philosophy, Culture and Social Justice
• Counselling Skills
• Educational Psychology
• Emotional Intelligence - the Key to Success?
• Environmental and Sustainability Education
• ICT across the Curriculum
• Maximising People Potential
• Mentorship
• Talk for Learning
• Resonance and Performance - Emotionally Intelligent Leadership and Management
• Teaching Pupils with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
• Strategic Leadership and Operational Management
• Understanding SLD (Dyslexia)
• Independent Study: Integrating Learning to Learn and Wellbeing.

We also offer school based modules such as the Independent Study and the Workplace Development module; these allow schools to build on, and gain credit, for school centred projects.

Assessment

To gain a Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice students need to complete three 4,000-word modular assignments.

To gain a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Practice, students need to complete six 4,000-word modular assignments.

To gain an MA in Education, students need to complete six 4,000-word modular assignments and a dissertation of 18,000 words.

Each of the above awards may relate to a specialism in: Curriculum, Inclusion, Leadership and Management.

Specialist Postgraduate Certificates are also available in:

• Management Development Programme for Data and Information Professionals.

Attendance

Part time (usually nine terms)

• Most modules run for 10 weeks, with sessions delivered between 1800 hrs to 2100 hrs. Centres include the University's Bognor Regis Campus and Crawley. Some modules, however, are offered with different patterns of delivery at Chichester or elsewhere.
• Some modules have a more intensive pattern of teaching with whole day sessions at weekends (these are negotiated with students).

The duration of the Course is normally from a minimum of three years to a maximum of seven years.

What about earlier qualifications or experience?

Remission from one or more modules is possible for applicants who have undertaken other relevant advanced work at Chichester or elsewhere within the last five years. Please see "Advance Standing" on the application form.

Entry Requirements

Normally a good first degree or equivalent and employment in the education sector. Hence teachers and any other professionals working in education are welcome to apply.
Exemption from a part of the Programme is often possible on the basis of recent qualifications obtained elsewhere.
Applications from non-standard entrants are also welcome.