Key Facts
- Indicative Fee
Home/EU: £5450 Part-Time: £2725
International: £12300 Part-Time: £6150 - Financial support
- Course Tutor(s):Susanne Wiborg
- Duration: One year full-time or two years part-time.
- Study Method: Full-time, Part-time
- Department: Dept of Lifelong and Comparative Education
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Comparative Education MA
This masters degree will:
- enhance your awareness of education systems, traditions and issues in other countries
- help you to understand relationships in education by introducing the concepts and skills you need for systematic comparison
- critically examine how international comparisons are used and misused in policy-making.
Features
This masters degree provides the opportunity to:
- join one of the few specialist comparative programmes in the UK
- gain a rigorous multidisciplinary grounding in the comparative analysis of education and society
- deepen your understanding of contemporary issues in education
- access new international career opportunities
- work with an international group of students.
Who is this programme for?
Anyone working or intending to work in education who wishes to understand education in a global context.
Entry requirements
A good first degree in a relevant subject.
How are you assessed?
By coursework and a 20,000-word dissertation.
Attendance
Face-to-face evening sessions. Attendance may vary depending on your choice of optional modules.
Core modules
- Comparative Education: Theories and Methods
- Education and Development in Asia
- Education Traditions And Systems In Europe
- Minorities, Migrants and Refugees in European Education