Study Education (Wales) - Additional Learning Needs, MA at Swansea University in the UK, Swansea University

About this course

About this course
- Overview
- Department
Study options
Entry requirements
- International

What will I learn?

COURSE OVERVIEW

The National MA Education (Wales): Additional Learning Needs is a truly transformative and sector leading programme for educational professionals in Wales, from early career teachers to senior leaders with an interest in Additional Learning Needs.

The educational landscape in Wales is changing rapidly. Teaching not only requires the mastery of a complex set of skills to guide, motivate, and facilitate student learning, but also the ability to enquire into professional practice in order to improve it.

The National MA Education (Wales): Additional Learning Needs programme - which has been collaboratively developed by seven universities in Wales, through direct engagement with a variety of key stakeholders including Welsh Government - will ensure that all education professionals in Wales have the same high-quality opportunity to enhance their professional knowledge, engage with research, and to improve their professional practice in the area of Additional Learning Needs.

WHY EDUCATION (WALES): ADDITIONAL LEARNING NEEDS AT SWANSEA?

Based on our stunning Singleton Park campus, in parkland overlooking Swansea Bay on the edge of the Gower Peninsula, you will study a programme designed to promote individual and collaborative research activity of international standard. Postgraduate training is available to enhance academic and professional development, as well as seminar programmes, workshops and international conferences.

EDUCATION (WALES): ADDITIONAL LEARNING NEEDS EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

This course is for educational professionals who have already embarked on their career.

Which department am I in?

Swansea University

Study options

Online/Distance (1 year)

Tuition fees

To be confirmed

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please

Start date

September 2025

Entry requirements

For international students

Students should be resident in Wales; Educated to degree level or equivalent; Have qualified teacher status (QTS) and be registered with the EWC as a teacher in a school, an advisory teacher in a local authority or a teacher in a setting such as a pupil referral unit (QTS and EWC registration must be maintained throughout the course of the programme) OR be a college lecturer and be registered with the EWC (EWC registration must be maintained throughout the course); Be employed by a maintained school in Wales / college in Wales / local authority in Wales as a teacher / lecturer / advisory teacher OR be employed by a registered independent school or specialist college; Be employed on a minimum of 0.4 FTE contracts, this can include supply teachers/lecturers who are on long term contracts either with a Local Authority, school, college or an agency; Be accepted/enrolled on this specific Masters in Education offered by the seven partnership HEIs; Follow the ALN Pathway; Candidates should have, where possible, the required approvals and support from their employer (school, local authority, setting or college) to undertake the National Masters in Education; Where someone has already achieved a subject specific Masters, they are still eligible to apply for the funding towards this programme; No other Masters in Education qualifications offered by the HEIs are eligible for this funding. Most academic departments will ask for an IELTS 6.5 (or equivalent) for postgraduate degrees but there are exceptions and you should always check the individual entry requirements.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.