Our MA Practice Education course is ideal for you if you are passionate about practice education and want to improve your skills. Whether you want to build your proficiency in a current role or start your career, this course gives you the tools to begin applying advanced technique and research to a professional practice related setting.

Teaching from experience, we give you a first-hand insight into how our teaching can be used to benefit you, your students and colleagues. With the ability to use your knowledge across a diverse range of roles, this course offers you a clear and helpful progression pathway within this context.

Why study this subject?

Choosing to study education is not just about increasing your skills as an educator, its also about increasing your experience of mentoring, care, research and shaping a young persons development. We've designed this course for those who have an interest in working in a range of areas including but not limited to:

primary education

secondary education

higher and further education

practice education in health and social care

Whether you already work in these roles or are looking to go into them, studying a masters course at BNU will give you the required knowledge to confidently start looking at taking responsibilities in these areas.

Why study at Buckinghamshire New University?

We offer you a course that can help you achieve your personal goals within the world of education. You can gain the support of professional lecturers with insight born out of extensive research and experience. We believe this course prepares you for whatever you might face in the future and more.

At BNU, as much as possible we try to tailor our course content around your specific needs. If you have some goals set, or need some direction, we enable you to focus on issues important to you or discover new information you were unaware of. Our course provides you with the opportunity to combine theory with practice, and we make sure were doing the best we can to prepare you.

In addition to all the course benefits, there are some practical benefits to consider too. We can provide you with a campus only 45 minutes from London, with our apps anywhere service allowing you to use software and apps from home, in addition to a great support network, cost of living support, student union and benefits packages to help you complete your studies.

What will I study?

This course is for you if you teach and/or support learning within a practice setting. The programme is tailored to the practice environment with opportunities to engage with topics that showcase the often-unique nature of practice-based learning, the challenges faced by your learners and tools to develop your practice.

You will study topics essential for the role of a modern professional within this context, backed up by the experience of our lecturers and research conducted on this specific subject.

Course content can properly prepare you for a role after graduation in a range of different careers including primary, early and secondary education, and many of our graduates have gone on to have successful careers in these areas.

You will also delve deeper into educational theory, supervising and mentoring others and engaging in self-reflection. Through the programme, you will also engage with research and will have the opportunity to introduce a research-based intervention within your practice setting.