Education – Learning and Leadership MA

Entry Requirements 2024/25

Standard Entry

Applicants should normally have:

A minimum of a 2:2 honours degree or an equivalent qualification such as a Certificate in Education (Cert Ed). Other professional qualifications and relevant professional experience will also be considered.

International qualifications:

If you have studied a non UK qualification, you can see how your qualifications compare to the standard entry criteria, by selecting the country that you received the qualification in, from our country pages. Visit www.northumbria.ac.uk/yourcountry

English language requirements:

International applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 with 6 in each component (or approved equivalent*).

*The university accepts a large number of UK and International Qualifications in place of IELTS. You can find details of acceptable tests and the required grades you will need in our English Language section. Visit www.northumbria.ac.uk/englishqualifications

Learning from tutors with real-world teaching experience puts students on our distance learning Education Masters in a great position for their future careers.  

You will graduate with knowledge of the very latest in education research, policy, and practice and how to apply this in your own work. Your understanding will be developed through critical discussion with your peers, colleagues, and lecturers.  

You’ll also be encouraged to critically reflect upon and challenge your own experience, while examining and contrasting different world views. Furthermore, you will develop skills in collaborative working and discipline-specific creativity. All of these are valuable to demonstrate to future employers.  

And your Masters degree certificate won’t mention your online or distance learning approach – you will earn the same degree as you would on campus. The advanced teaching skills you’ll build, combined with specialised leadership modules and research capabilities are transferrable throughout the education sector and beyond.  

Teachers who have their sights on a promotion will graduate with enhanced leadership, data evaluation and reflection abilities. Our cutting-edge modules, informed by ongoing research, will prepare our MA students to bring new techniques and methods into the classroom. A Masters degree in Education – especially one from a top 25 UK university in this area (The Complete University Guide 2022 and The Guardian University Guide 2022) – is an outstanding qualification for your CV, in particular if you are looking to teach internationally.  

Alternatively, if you work outside of a school, you will leave the course with a deep understanding of educational theory and practice, empowered to make change in your own organisation and ready to push your career to the next level. 

Successful completion of this course could also lead you to a Postgraduate Research Degree such as an MPhil, PhD and Professional Doctorate. 

Careers and Employment Service  

We offer a range of careers resources and support, available online and on a one-to-one basis, for you to tap into. Visit our Careers and Employment Service pages to learn more.