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Educational Research, MSc
The University of Manchester, School of Education
- Educational Research
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| Country: | United Kingdom | Duration: | 12 Months |
| City: | Manchester | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English |
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Programme Description
It supports the acquisition of cognitive, practical and transferable skills relevant to research and practice in the UK and overseas, and enables the develpoment of skills necessary for employment as an educational researcher or as a practitioner researcher employed in education. It is aimed primarilly at those wishing to conduct educational research either full-time or as part of their professional role and those wishing to continue onto doctoral research.
The training offered in this course enables development in a number of careers. Typically, people taking the MSc go onto doctoral research, a career in academic research or use the qualification to enhance their practice in a non-academic setting. Previous graduates have gone onto work in academic departments, research facilities, government, or used it to enhance their own practice as school teachers/managers.
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Module details
The course is composed of compulsory and optional course units. The compulsory units include: Planning of Research; Literature Review; Introduction to Quantitative and Qualitative Methods; and Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis Techniques. Typical optional units include topics such as Researching Disability; Discourse Analysis; Researching Sensitive Issues; Test Development and Action Research.
Course Unit outlines are available from the Postgraduate Course Units list http://courses.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/education/
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
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Full entry requirements
Academic entry qualification overview: Normally a good honours degree, or the overseas equivalent, in a relevant discipline.
English language: Students whose first language is not English require IELTS 7.0 (with 7.0 in the writing component) or TOEFL 600 paper based (with 4.5 in Test of Written English) or 250 computer based (with 4.5 in the Essay Rating).
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