Professional Studies in Education PgCert/PgDip/MA

These award-bearing continuing professional development programmes are aimed at all postgraduate and post-experience professionals who work in an educational context. They are flexible and modular, so, should you have to leave the programme at any stage, you may claim the award for which you are eligible. All courses are also attuned to national and local initiatives in teachers' career development.

The following part-time, modular pathways are available for evening study at our Kingston Hill site:

• Advanced Professional Practice
• Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties (BESD)
• Early Years Education
• Inclusion and Special Education Needs
• Leadership and Management

Read more about these routes in the pathway options section.

Partnership pathways

Programmes have also been validated for the following pathways. These are currently only available to teachers employed in the Surrey Local Authority and are normally taught in its own specialist schools and centres.

• Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Speech and Language Difficulties

The following pathways have also been validated and can be made available under partnership agreements.

• Gifted and Talented Students
• Mentoring and Coaching
• Modern Foreign Languages in the Primary Classroom
• Multi-agency Working
• Multimedia Education

Should other local authorities or training providers wish to discuss the possibility of developing similar arrangements for the delivery of award-bearing CPD programmes, they should contact the CPD programme administrator.

We recognise that you will be undertaking a wide range of CPD activities as part of your normal work role, and that they do not always allow you the time to attend regular sessions at the University.

Consequently we have designed two options that may enable you to customise your own programme. These may be of particular interest to heads and co-ordinators who would like to work with us in organising and supporting school-based study and research for small groups of their colleagues.

Crediting and extending professional development

With tutored support from Kingston University, in-service training activities that you are currently undertaking or have undertaken, normally within the past two years can be submitted for consideration as Stage 1 (PgCert) or Stage 2 (PgDip) of the Professional Studies in Education programme.

Independent study

If you have professional responsibilities that limit the amount of time you can spend away from the workplace, this option may enable you to study on a blended learning basis.

• Stage 1 – PgCert (60 credits)
• Stage 2 – PgDip (60 credits)
• Stage 3 – MA (60 credits)

You must complete each stage before you can progress to the next stage. Stage 3 comprises a Research Methods module followed by a Dissertation.

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