MA Education (Early Childhood Studies)

You develop your academic and professional skills and knowledge appropriate to an area of educational interest, so you can continue your professional, educational and personal development by consolidating, enhancing and extending your disciplinary expertise, experience and abilities.

You also develop advanced research skills appropriate to postgraduate study and professional practice that will enable you to critically evaluate existing work and design research to further knowledge within education.

The learning and teaching strategy of the course is designed to encourage an individualised and progressive acquisition of knowledge and skills required for postgraduate study. Learning is scaffolded by gradually moving from study methods with more significant support and guidance towards more independence and self-direction. From the start of the course, you are supported to choose an area of education relevant to your current or future professional practice, which can form the focus of your learning.

• Standard Postgraduate criteria will apply, plus:

• In exceptional cases, applicants who can demonstrate suitable significant experience and/or further study in the education discipline may be considered for the course and may be asked to attend an informal interview to assess their suitability. This will include intellectual and academic suitability for the course.

• A written record of the informal interview will be kept

20 Hours of work permit weekly for international students.