Degrees for Education

The skills, knowledge and talents you bring to your graduate work are key to this program’s curriculum, designed with experienced educators in mind.

You join others with backgrounds in early childhood and K-12 education, adult and higher education, student services, community college instruction, English as a second language, training design, public service education and community education in ecology, health and the arts.

Self-designed Option at Seattle Campus
On campus, you have the flexibility of full- or part-time study. Full-time students typically complete the 48-credit program in six quarters or less. Courses meet late afternoons, evenings and occasional Saturdays to accommodate the needs of working adults. You work with your adviser to build your program around your professional interests and these core knowledge areas:
Leadership and change
Diversity and equity
Curriculum studies and reflective practice
Inquiry and research

You also can take graduate-level courses from Antioch’s other academic centers and prepare for add-on endorsements.

Off-campus Sites Provide Other Options
Sites within K-12 school districts offer another program option. You have the support of a cohort of about 20 fellow educators in this program, which meets at a school in your district. Sites have included Marysville, Stanwood, Tacoma and the First Peoples’ Education program at the Muckleshoot Tribal College in Auburn. This full-time, site-based program also has a 48-credit curriculum and can be completed in five quarters. You still also have flexibility to design components of your program.

Numerous Career Paths Open to You
With your newly expanded knowledge base and professional experience, you can promote and lead efforts for change in schools, districts, colleges, businesses and communities. While some graduates choose administrative careers, many receive local, statewide and national recognition for designing new educational models and approaches as well as for creating programs that address social equity and justice.

The skills, knowledge and talents you bring to your graduate work are key to this program’s curriculum, designed with experienced educators in mind.

You join others with backgrounds in early childhood and K-12 education, adult and higher education, student services, community college instruction, English as a second language, training design, public service education and community education in ecology, health and the arts.

Self-designed Option at Seattle Campus
On campus, you have the flexibility of full- or part-time study. Full-time students typically complete the 48-credit program in six quarters or less. Courses meet late afternoons, evenings and occasional Saturdays to accommodate the needs of working adults. You work with your adviser to build your program around your professional interests and these core knowledge areas:
Leadership and change
Diversity and equity
Curriculum studies and reflective practice
Inquiry and research

You also can take graduate-level courses from Antioch’s other academic centers and prepare for add-on endorsements.

Off-campus Sites Provide Other Options
Sites within K-12 school districts offer another program option. You have the support of a cohort of about 20 fellow educators in this program, which meets at a school in your district. Sites have included Marysville, Stanwood, Tacoma and the First Peoples’ Education program at the Muckleshoot Tribal College in Auburn. This full-time, site-based program also has a 48-credit curriculum and can be completed in five quarters. You still also have flexibility to design components of your program.

Numerous Career Paths Open to You
With your newly expanded knowledge base and professional experience, you can promote and lead efforts for change in schools, districts, colleges, businesses and communities. While some graduates choose administrative careers, many receive local, statewide and national recognition for designing new educational models and approaches as well as for creating programs that address social equity and justice.

This taught programme is provided by Education & Professional Studies within the School of Social Science & Public Policy. Follow these links for information about the department and School, including facilities, funding, and a list of staff research interests.
Purpose
Designed to allow experienced professionals (particularly those in full-time practice) to pursue a Doctoral level programme relevant to their professional interests. The programme consists of two integrated parts: a substantial taught element provides a coherent structure and prepares students for engagement with manageable independent research concerning issues arising from professional practice. Suitable for professionals working in a wide variety of contexts: school teachers, lecturers in higher or further education, and educators in a variety of professional settings.
Programme description
- Comprehensive research training.
- Specialist supervision of thesis.
- A leading education and professional studies research department in the UK.

This programme has been created to share the department’s internationally recognised and wide-ranging expertise with senior professionals working in education. While providing opportunities for you to pursue personal interests, it has a common core of theory, research training and research designed specifically for professionals at work. It is therefore significantly different from the traditional doctorate and more attuned to the needs of the career professional seeking to develop their career through enhanced research capacity.

The programme aims to promote understanding of the nature, development and evaluation of professional knowledge, to develop critical awareness of implications of policies for practice and to develop high level research skills. Four components are studied sequentially as each leads on to and informs the subsequent part.

In the taught component you will explore issues of professional knowledge common to all participants, acquire relevant research skills and link theoretical issues to your specialist interests. These should also reflect the academic expertise in the department. The institution-focused study looks at professionalism in practice: you will examine problems and issues relating to being a professional in an institutional setting, normally your own. You will be supervised by a member of the department with input, where appropriate, from a staff member in your institution. The research-based thesis usually involves an empirically based study in your specialist area. It may, where appropriate, follow on from the institution-focused study. You will be supervised by a specialist from King’s academic staff.
Programme format and assessment
A variety of teaching methods are employed to suit the participants’ needs. There are two variants of the programme.
Most taught formal sessions take place in blocks.
1) Each module requires attendance for two two-day blocks per term, each with six hours teaching. These will take place on Fridays and Saturdays (dates to be announced).
2) The international variant, designed for participants from overseas, involves attendance of one continuous week per term during the taught component of the programme. Individual supervision is arranged between student and supervisor. The taught modules are assessed by a variety of assessment methods, eg coursework, reports, literature review, book reviews etc. The Institution-Focused Study is assessed by a report. Your research thesis should be approximately 50,000 words long.

This taught programme is provided by the School of Biomedical & Health Sciences. Follow this link for information about the School, including facilities, funding, and a list of staff research interests.
Purpose
With the reorganisation of the National Health Service (NHS), formation of a range of primary care organsiations, and the new Pharmacy White Paper, there are more opportunities for pharmacists to play an integral part in the healthcare team. Community pharmacists are working more in primary care offering a range of services such as Medicines Use Review (MUR), Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) and smoking cession. Increasingly, community pharmacists are being encouraged to take a more proactive approach to provide a patient-centered pharmaceutical care service.

At the Department of Pharmacy, we have revised our well-established part-time graduate course to address the needs of the modern primary care pharmacist.
Programme description
This specialist graduate programme is offered in line with the changing environment of the NHS and pharmacy within the UK. It offers experienced pharmacists an opportunity to pursue graduate training relevant to their professional interests and the requirements for professional development. A distinctive feature of the programme is that it allows practising pharmacists to pursue their own interests/learning needs within the framework of master’s level teaching.

A number of optional modules available. Core modules include Delivering Services Effectively; Fundamentals of pedagogy for pharmacists; Interprofessional leadership and learning; Oral hormonal contraceptive services.
Programme format and assessment
Modular system allows credit transfer and students can complete the programme over a number of years if necessary. Lecture and tutorial-based teaching using problem-based tasks and projects. Assessed through written examinations, OCSEs, oral and poster presentations.
English language requirements
More information for students whose first language is not English.
Student destinations
Recent graduates have expanded their role and prospects in new primary care pharmaceutical services including closer liaison with Primary Care Trusts, GP surgeries and developing clinical services. Others have used the course to move from industry to the healthcare sector, and primary care into teaching positions.
Funding
Students are generally funded by their employers and applications from self-funding students are welcomed.
Application procedure
Your application will be assessed by two academics. You may be called for interview. You are welcome to call the department to arrange a visit. We aim to process complete applications in four weeks.
Personal statement and supporting information section
Please describe your current area of practice, and give number of days per week you work.
Contact for further information
Academic Centre at the Waterloo Campus, tel 020 7848 4329
Dr Sue C Jones, Course Director, tel 020 7848 4847.

Our distance-learning based MBA programme encourages educational professionals to broaden their knowledge, understanding and skills within their own work context. You will be able to integrate self-supported study course units into your work and utilise your increased appreciation of education and theory on a day-to-day basis - helping you to review and analyse your skills on an ongoing basis.

Keele’s programme is particularly innovative because it links different modes of study, comprising:
modular coursework undertaken on a distance-learning basis
work-based research project related to your own experience and professional interests (MBA)
course sessions which allow you to meet with tutors and colleagues from a wide range of professional backgrounds to look in greater depth at coursework issues.

The course is designed to be rigorous and challenging academically, and practical in terms of your day-to-day responsibilities. However, we do recognise the need to provide a workable and achievable balance since colleagues undertaking the course often have personal/family commitments as well as full-time workloads. We can provide all the essential elements needed to undertake the study programme - comprehensive Tutor Notes and additional readings, a high quality learning environment, as well as support and guidance from Tutors.

Our concern is to try to make studying as rewarding as possible for you - with the minimum of disruption to the rest of your personal and professional life. We endeavour to provide a high quality study programme which can be integrated into your work and home life.

Our semi-distance learning MA encourages educationists - teachers, lecturers, managers - to broaden their knowledge, understanding and skills within their own work context. You will be able to integrate self-supported study course units into your work and utilise your increased appreciation of education and theory on a day-to-day basis - helping you to review and analyse your skills as work roles demand.

Keele’s programme is particularly innovative because it links different modes of study, comprising:
modularised coursework undertaken on a semi-distance learning basis
work-based research project related to your own experience and professional interests (MA only)
course sessions which allow you to meet with tutors and colleagues from a wide range of professional backgrounds to look in greater depth at coursework issues.

The course is designed to be rigorous and challenging academically and practical in terms of your day-to-day responsibilities. However, we do recognise the need to provide a workable and achievable balance since colleagues undertaking the course generally have personal/family commitments as well as full-time workloads. We can provide all the essential elements needed to undertake the study programme - comprehensive Tutor Notes and additional readings, a high quality learning environment, as well as advice and support from experienced tutors.

Our concern is to try to make studying as rewarding as possible for you - with the minimum of disruption to the rest of your personal and professional life. We endeavour to provide a high quality study programme which can be integrated into your work and home life.

The degree is future oriented. It provides a framework for the rigorous study of educational problem-solving in the changing social, cultural and political contexts of education. Designed to meet the needs and aspirations of those working in a broad range of educational settings, this degree offers individualised and unique pathways of study that are both research-based and strongly focused on areas of professional interest.

The program is designed to:
integrate contemporary research with professional interests;
develop and enhance skills in the critical analysis of educational issues and practice;
expand understanding of the nature of educational work and its social and cultural significance; and
enhance professional profile and preparation for specialised practice in teaching and managerial careers in education.

Attendance
Core courses are offered in intensive mode which entails weekend attendance, one weekend for each course. All elective domain courses will be offered in distance/flexible mode and some may include intensive weekend attendance.

Career opportunities
This program provides an avenue to pursue advanced studies in a format appropriate for the profession. It is a preparation for those in leadership and management positions in educational institutions and systems and other organisations that operate educational programs. It is also preparation for those working in research, policy-making, new information technologies and areas yet to emerge where advanced intellectual and applied knowledge and skills are required.

The Ph.D. in Education program produces outstanding professionals who can address the nation’s most pressing educational challenges. Each of the specializations is designed to match your professional interests and meet the needs of your organization. In fact, it requires educators to come to the program with defined learning goals and challenges them to design their own program of study. The program combines collaborative online study with self-paced, faculty-guided research modules and face-to-face residencies.
General Program

Specializations
Adult Education Leadership
Community College Leadership
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment new!
Early Childhood Education
Educational Technology updated!
Higher Education
K–12 Educational Leadership
Special Education
Self-Designed

Type: Graduate

The Specialist in Education degree (Ed.S.) with a major in workforce development and education is designed to provide graduate level preparation for persons interested in advanced study and research in professions such as human resource development, industrial education, technology education, and technical teacher education. Students will specialize in an area such as technology management, vocational administration, or in such HRD fields as management, consulting, facilitation or instructional design and technology.

The Specialist in Education degree may be used to develop specialization in an area to support a following doctoral program, or it may be considered as a terminal professional degree. Students who plan to pursue a doctoral program should check with the university where they plan to attend as to their transfer policy. Some universities will not transfer Ed.S. credit for a doctoral degree as they consider it a terminal degree.

The Ed.S. program in the College of Technology requires at least one year of specialized graduate study beyond the Master of Science degree. The program is developed on the basis of the student’s academic background and professional interests. Coursework selected should support this specialization. Independent study is often part of the program as the Ed.S. candidate is expected to take responsibility for their professional development.

Research is an integral part of this degree. The Ed.S. degree may be completed under Option I: Thesis, or Option II: Problem. Option I students will defend their thesis in addition to a written examination. Option II students will take comprehensive examinations over their course of study.

Career Opportunities
Career and Technical Education Teacher

Description of Certificate Program
The education of children and adults is continually under scrutiny by local, state, and international national interest groups and consumers. Educational institutions both formal and non-formal are being challenged and transformed through restructuring and reform initiatives. Because education is continually looked to as a socialization agent, educators are called upon to address social problems both outside and inside schools at an accelerating rate. The nature of contemporary educational practice requires effective and creative policy responses on a continuous basis. Administrators and policy professionals need the skills to carry out effective policy planning, analysis, implementation, and valuation that respond to current issues in educational policy. The certificate program targets educational professionals in a variety of roles who aspire to, or are currently engaged in, the development, analysis implementation, or evaluation of educational policies.

Program Information
Florida State University’s Certificate program in Educational Policy offers preparation in policy analysis as applied to education policy, and can be completed either on a full-time or part-time basis. Students select a program of study that will fit their individual needs and take into account their prior work experience, educational attainment, and professional aspirations.

The Certificate program in Educational Policy is appropriate for a wide range of people with professional interests and experience in education policy both domestically and internationally. The program offers training for students working in, or contemplating careers at, institutions of higher education, elementary and secondary education, or state and national agencies working in education policy.