Master of Education

Masters (Coursework)

The Master of Education is designed to meet the needs of experienced educators seeking professional learning, personal and professional enquiry and intellectual engagement within a specialist area or across a range of specialisations.

Key details

Degree Type

Masters (Coursework)

Duration

1.5 - 4 years full-time

Course Code

E7H

Intake Months

Feb, Jul

International Fees

$35,656 per year

About this course

The Master of Education is designed to meet the needs of experienced educators seeking professional learning, personal and professional enquiry and intellectual engagement within a specialist area or across a range of specialisations.

Entry requirements

Applicants with higher education study

To be eligible for an offer, you must have completed:

An Initial Teacher's Education (ITE) degree at Bachelor's level or equivalent qualification such as a Master of Teaching, or;
the Graduate Certificate of Education, Diploma of Education, or equivalent qualification.

Applicants without an Initial Teacher's Education degree:

To be eligible for an offer, you must have:

Completed a Certificate IV or equivalent qualification and 3 years industry or teaching experience.

Students intending to articulate to the Master of Education with a specialisation in Applied Learning are strongly recommended to have completed a Cert IV and have 3 years industry or teaching experience.

What you will learn

1 Critically evaluate a range of theoretical frameworks in education and related fields in order to design, assess and/or theorise responses to changing educational contexts.

2 Synthesise and analyse scholarly literature to deepen knowledge of local and international developments in practice and to support the development of project and research planning.

3 Consolidate professional experience, workplace knowledge and contemporary literature in developing creative responses to current educational debates.

4 Use a range of communicative technologies to explain complex theoretical concepts in relation to practice-based issues, educational research, policy and current literature to specialist and non-specialist audiences.

5 Articulate how collegial educational professionalism requires ethical standards as well as evidence-based and exploratory approaches of practice, research, and evaluation.

Course structure

The Master of Education requires the completion of 150 credit points, which may include an optional Specialisation from the course schedule.

When you complete the Master of Education with a specialisation, you'll concentrate half of your course in single area of study. This will be recognised on your academic transcript and testamur upon graduation.

Alternatively, completing without a specialisation gives you more opportunity to complete a broader range of units that fit your individual personal and professional goals.

In both cases you will complete a capstone research dissertation.

For assistance tailoring your degree to suit your interests or situation get in touch with a Student Advisor.

If you are starting in 2023 you can find your course planner here. Your course planner gives you a visual representation of your course and will help you plan which units to enrol in and when.

For course planners from previous years, refer to the handbook entry for that year.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Teacher Education courses at University of Tasmania.

71.1%

Overall satisfaction

63.4%

Skill scale

66.7%

Teaching scale

89.2%

Employed full-time

$83k

Average salary

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