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| Application Deadline: | None, but early application advised | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,313 - ≈ € 14,088 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Birmingham / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | ||
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| Credits (ECTS): | 180 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Birmingham
This programme is for people who are interested in taking an international and comparative perspective on educational issues. This includes teachers, headteachers/principals, education administrators, and those working with non-governmental organisations and international agencies that play a role in education. It also includes those who would like to develop a career in these directions.
This programme will enable you to:
* Have a critical understanding of key debates surrounding education as an international issue
* Make analytical comparisons between educational issues in different contexts, including your own
Global social justice is a theme of all strands of this programme.
Contents
Students take the compulsory module Education as an International Issue. Additionally, they must choose a minimum of two modules from the following:
* School Observation, Evaluation and Supervision
* Personal and Professional Skills for Education Managers
* Curriculum Design in Global Contexts
* Human Rights, Citizenship and the Environment
* Leadership for School Improvement
Pathways
The International Studies in Education programme is also offered with three specialist pathways. These pathways follow the same broad lines of the core programme, but each one has a different focus and different compulsory modules.
* Management and Policy
* Intercultural Communication
* Citizenship Education
Management and Policy
As well as the core programme aims listed above, this programme will enable you to understand key theories in issues in the management of education, and develop skills in this area. To gain a qualification in International Studies in Education (Management and Policy), you take the compulsory modules:
* Education as an International Issue
* Personal and Professional Skills for Education Managers
* Leadership for School Improvement
You are also encouraged to take other modules from the International Studies programme as options. Your dissertation topic must be relevant to management and policy in education.
Intercultural Communication
As well as the core programme aims listed above, this programme will enable you to understand issues in intercultural communication as they relate to education and develop skills for working in intercultural learning contexts. To gain a qualification in International Studies in Education (Intercultural Communication), you take the compulsory modules:
* Education as an International Issue
* Language, Discourse and Society
* Personal and Professional Skills in Education Management
Your dissertation topic must be relevant to intercultural communication and education.
Citizenship Education
As well as the core programme aims listed above, this programme will enable you to:
* Explore definitions and issues in education for citizenship
* Reflect on the nature and relevance of education for citizenship in your own and other countries
To gain a qualification in International Studies in Education (Citizenship), you take the compulsory modules:
* Education as an International Issue
* Human Rights, Citizenship and the Environment
You also choose at least one further module from the International Studies programme list. Your dissertation topic must be relevant to education for citizenship.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
* IELTS 6.5 with no less than 6.0 in any band
* TOEFL 580 Paper- based test / 237 Computer-based test
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade A (Score: 80) |
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