Overview

This  Higher and Professional Education  programme offered by the University of Surrey is aimed at practising university teachers, including those working in mainstream academic departments, faculty development centres and support services, such as libraries and study skill centres. It has been designed to develop you further as a teacher.

Career opportunities

• This distance learning course offers you the flexibility to create a programme that suits your professional development needs in the field of university teaching. Offered on a part-time basis over three to five years, the qualification recognises the importance of balancing your studying alongside your teaching roles. The programme allows you to tailor your learning according to your interests and preferences through a choice of optional modules. You’ll do this by engaging with the connections between concepts, theory and practice, teaching and research, disciplinary methods, and teachers and students. As a fully online programme, teaching is delivered via a range of live and recorded or guided learning activities that you can engage with at a time that suits you. These activities support the learning outcomes of each module and reflect the needs of the student group. As such, whilst you register for the full masters, you may step off from the programme at either the postgraduate certificate or postgraduate diploma levels. Throughout your studies, you’ll analyse issues relating to your everyday teaching practice. In addition, you’ll debate alternative ideas, challenges, and explore solutions with your peers and tutors. Your experience on the MA can provide evidence to support your application for Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Completion of the MA offers you both a qualification relevant to learning and teaching in higher and professional education, but also provides significant evidence for professional development, such as applications for senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 100 per cent of Surrey Institute of Education postgraduate students go on to employment or further study (Graduate Outcomes 2024, HESA).