Education - SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities)

Entry requirements

This MA course attracts students from a wide range of backgrounds and nationalities, normally graduates with a recognised teaching qualification, or other educational professional experience.

Applicants normally have:

• a good honours degree
• QTS (Qualified Teacher Status), other equivalent professional qualification or relevant experience

Entry with credit

Credit for the award can be made up of appropriate work completed outside the course, for example, M level credit from PGCE awards or Postgraduate Certificate courses in relevant subject areas. Please contact pgeducation@brookes.ac.uk for more information.

English language requirements

Months of entry

September

Course content

On our MA Education - SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) you will study issues around special education, disability and inclusion at master’s level.

You will learn in an environment where you will be supported in improving and developing your practice. During your studies you will:

• develop your critical enquiry and reflection in the field of SEND
• gain depth and insight into your professional thinking
• meet students who are at various levels in their careers.

Our academic team of specialist staff have a strong background in SEND teaching and are research–active in the field.

Subject to these having been gained in the last five years, applicants may transfer in credits gained from:

• a PG Cert NASENCo
• the Brookes-SEBDA PG Cert in Understanding and Managing Social Emotional Mental Health (SB50)
• the Brookes-SEBA PG Cert in Advanced Study of Social Emotional Mental Health (SB51).

Information for international students

Fees and funding

• Funding for Postgraduate students from the UK and EU.

• Funding for Postgraduate students from outside the EU.