Research course
Education
Entry requirements
A 2:1 honours degree and a master's degree, or international equivalents, in a relevant subject.
Months of entry
January, September
Course content
We offer expert supervision for an MPhil or PhD in Education in the following research areas:
- early year's policy with a focus on language and communication
- social justice in education
- gifted and talented children in Africa, India and the UK
- education in popular culture
- early literacy
- technology-enhanced learning, including language learning
- learning to teach languages
- counselling and wellbeing in children and adults
- the physical learning environment
- teaching and learning in Higher Education
- internationalisation in Higher Education.
Our supervisors' current research interests, projects and publications are available from our staff profiles. Most of our staff have professional experience in teaching, speech and language therapy or English language teaching before entering academia.
Information for international students
English Language Requirements:
Direct Entry: IELTS 7.0 overall (with a minimum of 6.5 in all sub-skills).
If you have lower English Language scores, you may be accepted onto a Pre-sessional English course.
Fees and funding
See Fees and Funding tab in the Programme information.
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- PhD
- part time72 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- full time36 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- MPhil
- part time24 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- full time12 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- Carolyn Letts, Director of Postgraduate Research, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
- pgrecls@ncl.ac.uk
- Phone
- +44 (0)191 208 7390