Master of Education

Course by Australian Catholic University (ACU)

The Master of Education enables teachers and educators to develop their scholarship and expertise. This course enhances career advancement opportunities as a teaching professional or leader, education administrator, researcher or policy maker. With 15 specialisations to choose from you will analyse the challenges and changing demands of education preparing you to transform and improve practice as a leader in education.

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Type Masters
Course code MEd
Course length 1.5 years full-time or equivalent part-time.
Entry requirements An applicant must also comply with the Admission to Coursework Programs Policy. International applicants must also meet the English Language Proficiency requirements as defined in the Admission to Coursework Programs Policy. To be eligible for admission to the course, an applicant must have completed the following prerequisites: Bachelor degree in Education; or equivalent; or Bachelor degree in an area other than Education and a recognised teaching qualification; or Bachelor degree in an area other than Education and a Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies or equivalent.
Delivery Online and Multi-mode

This course is designed for educators or those working in educational contexts who wish to pursue further studies in a specialised area. It will not lead to a teaching qualification.

The Master of Education (Coursework) enables teachers and educators to develop their scholarship and expertise further. The course enhances career advancement opportunities as a teaching professional or leader, education administrator, researcher or policy maker.

Specialist areas leading to a named specialisation:

  • Allied School Psychology

  • Autism Spectrum Studies* (not offered in 2017)

  • Career Development

  • Early Childhood

  • Literacy Intervention

  • Mathematics Leadership

  • Middle School Mathematics

  • Safeguarding Children and Young People

  • Special Education

  • Student Wellbeing

  • Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Other curriculum areas available but not leading to a named specialisation:

  • Arts Education

  • Contemporary Learning

  • Gifted Education

  • Language and Literacy Education

  • Mathematics Education

This advanced education course will enable students to enhance professional knowledge and pedagogical practices, and to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of recent research.

Students with a postgraduate qualification in Education may apply for credit and complete the degree in less time.

*Autism Spectrum Studies specialisation:

Units in this specialisation are not offered at ACU. This specialisation is only available to students completing the Advanced Professional Certificate (Autism Spectrum Disorder) with the units ERASD1, ERASD2 and ERASD3 at Eastern Ranges School, Melbourne, who are eligible to apply for specified credit into the ACU MEd (Autism Spectrum Studies). To exit the course with the award and named specialisation of Graduate Certificate in Education (Autism Spectrum Studies), students must complete an additional 20 credit points of ACU units.

Cost

Average first year fee: $15640 Fee-Paying (indicative only)
Important Note on Fees

All costs are calculated using current rates and are based on a full-time study load of 40 credit points (normally 4 units) per semester.

A student’s annual fee may vary in accordance with:

the number of units studied per semester;
the choice of major or specialisation; and
elective units.
The University reviews fees annually.

CRICOS Code

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