Education (Teaching and Learning) MA
Start Dates
21 September 2026
Duration
1 year full-time 2 years part-time (Sept. only)
Overview
Why choose Huddersfield for this course?
- Advance your career and prepare for progression into middle and senior leadership roles.
- Tailor your studies to your current role or future career ambitions with a broad range of module options designed to match your professional goals.
- Develop the critical reflection and research skills to enhance your practice and become a confident, reflective, and inspiring educator.
If you’re passionate about advancing your career in teaching and learning or looking to deepen your professional knowledge in formal education, this course is the ideal next step for you.
Whether you're currently working as a teacher, education leader, or in a management role, or aiming to pursue a career in this field, this course will enhance your expertise and elevate your career to the next level.
You’ll focus on developing your professional knowledge and understanding of teaching practices within your own context, exploring how teachers’ roles and identities are constructed. You’ll critically reflect on how these identities shape the role of educators and gain valuable research skills to enhance your reflective awareness. This course will also provide the tools to help you progress into middle and senior management roles within a wide range of educational settings.
Why Education (Teaching and Learning)?
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The course offers flexibility, allowing you to tailor your studies to your professional experience and role, helping you become a reflective and inspiring educator.
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You’ll develop critical reflection and independent learning skills to evaluate and improve your practice, while deepening your research expertise for your dissertation.
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Collaborate with students from diverse disciplines and organisations, exchanging knowledge and learning from different perspectives.
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Benefit from expert teachers, a strong professional network, and access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources to support your growth.
Entry Requirements
You should have an honours degree in a relevant subject at 2:2 or above, or a professional equivalent.
The University will determine whether a degree can be recognised as UK equivalent.
If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our International Entry Requirements page.
Course Details
You will study the following modules:
You will also choose 2 optional modules in this year. The current optional modules are:
For more information on when and how we update our modules please see the ‘Legal Information’ section below.
Teaching and Assessment
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Your Career
Previous graduates from courses in this subject area have gone on to work in a variety of roles such as Community Education Officer, Learning Mentor, Education Consultant, Family Support Worker, Education Mental Health Practitioner and Teaching Assistant.*
*Source: Prospects
98%
Percentage of our postgraduate students go on to work and/or further study within fifteen months of graduating.
* HESA Graduate Outcomes 2022/23, UK domiciled.
£38.5k
Average salary of our postgraduate students fifteen months after graduating.
* HESA Graduate Outcomes 2022/23, mean salary, UK domiciled, full-time UK employment as main activity.
This course has deepened my understanding of the education sector and broadened my perspective beyond my own area. I now feel more confident engaging with colleagues across education and more effective in my role as Chair of Governors.
- Gillian Hoyle
Education MA, now works as a University Lecturer.
Fees and Finance
This information is for Home students applying to study at the University of Huddersfield in the academic year 2026/27.
Modules credits can range from 15 to 60, dependent on the content of the module. Read more about total credits required for a range of degrees, to allow you to calculate the potential total cost.
Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X) and/or Government policy.
For detailed information please visit https://www.hud.ac.uk/study/fees/
This information is for Home and International students applying to study at the University of Huddersfield in the academic year 2026/27.
Modules credits can range from 15 to 60, dependent on the content of the module. Read more about total credits required for a range of degrees, to allow you to calculate the potential total cost.
Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X) and/or Government policy and/or to ensure our distance learning fees are competitive.
Tuition fees will cover the cost of your study at the University. Read more about what is and is not covered by Tuition Fees including compliance for Goods and Services Tax for International Students studying an online course.
For detailed information please visit www.hud.ac.uk/distance-learning/fees-and-finance/
This information is for international students applying to study at the University of Huddersfield in the academic year 2026/27.
Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X) and/or Government policy.
For detailed information please visit https://www.hud.ac.uk/international/fees-and-funding/
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What’s included in your fee?
We want you to understand exactly what your fees will cover and what additional costs you may need to budget for when you decide to become a student with us.
If you have any questions about Fees and Finance, please email the Student Finance Team.
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When you enrol as a student of the University, your study and time with us will be governed by our terms and conditions, Handbook of Regulations and associated policies. It is important that you familiarise yourself with these as you will be asked to agree to them when you join us as a student. You will find a guide to the key terms here, along with the Student Protection Plan.
Although we always try and ensure we deliver our courses as described, sometimes we may have to make changes for the following reasons:
Changes to a course you have applied for but are not yet enrolled on
If we propose to make a major change to a course that you are holding an offer for, then we will tell you as soon as possible so that you can decide whether to withdraw your application prior to enrolment. We may occasionally have to withdraw a course you have applied for or combine your programme with another programme if we consider this reasonably necessary to ensure a good student experience, for example if there are not enough applicants. Where this is the case we will notify you as soon as reasonably possible and if you are unhappy with the change we will discuss with you other suitable courses we can transfer your application to. If you do not wish to transfer to another course with us, you may cancel your application and we will refund you any deposits or fees you have paid to us.
Changes to your course after you enrol as a student
Changes to option modules
Where your course allows you to choose modules from a range of options, we will review these each year and change them to reflect the expertise of our staff, current trends in research and as a result of student feedback or demand for certain modules. We will always ensure that you have an equivalent range of options to that advertised for the course. We will let you know in good time the options available for you to choose for the following year.
Major changes
We will only make major changes to non-optional modules on a course if it is necessary for us to do so and provided such changes are reasonable. A major change is a change that substantially changes the outcomes, or a significant part of your course, such as the nature of the award or a substantial change to module content, teaching days (part time provision), type of delivery or assessment of the core curriculum. For example, it may be necessary to make a major change to reflect changes in the law or the requirements of the University’s regulators or a commissioning or accrediting body. We may also make changes to improve the course in response to student, examiners’ or other course evaluators’ feedback or to ensure you are being taught current best practice. Major changes may also be necessary because of circumstances outside our reasonable control, such as a key member of staff being unable to teach due to illness, where they have a particular specialism that can’t be adequately covered by other members of staff; or due to pandemics, other disasters (such as fire, flood or war) or changes made by the government.
Major changes would usually be made with effect from the next academic year, but may happen sooner in an emergency. We will notify you as soon as possible should we need to make a major change and will consult with affected groups of students and any changes would only be made in accordance with our regulations. If you reasonably believe that the proposed change will cause you detriment or hardship we will, if appropriate, work with you to try to reduce the adverse effect on you or find an appropriate solution. Where an appropriate solution cannot be found and you let us know before the change takes effect you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the University without liability to the University for any additional tuition fees. We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so and you may be eligible for an exit award depending on how far through your course you are.
In exceptional circumstances, we may, for reasons outside of our control, be forced to discontinue or suspend your course. Where this is the case, a formal exit strategy will be followed in accordance with the student protection plan.
The Office for Students (OfS) is the principal regulator for the University.