Comparative Education

The Comparative Education MA will enhance students' awareness of education systems, traditions and issues in a number of countries, helping them to understand the relationships between education and other social phenomena by introducing the concepts and skills students need for systematic comparison.

This programme will help students to gain a rigorous multidisciplinary grounding in the comparative analysis of education and society, deepening their understanding of contemporary issues in education in many parts of the world.

Core modules

• Comparative Education: Theories and Methods
• Education and Development in Asia
• Education Traditions and Systems in Europe

Optional modules

• Doing and Using Educational Leadership and Management Research
• Education and international Development: Concepts, Theories and Issues
• Education and Muslim Communities
• Learners, Learning and Teaching in the Context of Education for All
• Minorities, Migrants and Refugees in National Education Systems
• Planning for Education and Development
• Policy, Research and Pedagogy in Adult Literacy

Dissertation/report

All students undertake an independent research project which culminates in a 20,000-word dissertation or 10,000-word report.

Teaching and learning

This programme is delivered via face-to-face evening sessions. Attendance may vary depending on your choice of optional modules. It is assessed by coursework assignments of 5,000 words, and a 20,000-word dissertation or 10,000-word report. If opted for the report an additional module is required. 

Normally a minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard is required.