Course Overview

This programme is designed to support qualified teachers or those working within education to enhance their professional profile and help engagement with broader contemporary issues impacting schools and teachers. It enables a broader perspective on their work.

Your Advisor of Studies will help guide you in your choices. It has several pathways, including:

• Health, Wellbeing & Sustainability

• Inclusive Education

• Philosophy with Children (the only course of its kind in the UK)

• Supporting Teacher Learning

• Educational Leadership

• Technology Enhanced Teaching and Learning (Digital Education)

By completing this degree, you'll gain a critical understanding of education while being able to tailor your choice of elective subjects to suit your preferred area of specialism.

Rather than leading to a teaching qualification, it enables you to develop skills to study at the Masters's level and create a sophisticated understanding of the concept of education-related policy. It will allow you to extend your interest and knowledge of learning and engage in other education-related areas.

General Eligibility

Academic requirements/experience

An undergraduate degree. Some modules require General Teaching Council for Scotland registration or another qualified teacher status for you to work in schools.

Please note: A maximum of 40 master's level credits gained while on the PGDE can be added to the MEd Education Studies.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• IELTS 6.5 overall (no individual band less than 5.5)