We offer a variety of learning and teaching opportunities
Undergraduate Taught Programmes
MA (Hons) Primary Education with Teaching Qualification
This innovative four-year degree programme, approved by the General Teaching Council for Scotland, is benchmarked against the highest standards of excellence. On this programme you won’t just learn how to teach; you will graduate with a comprehensive understanding of how children learn, grow and develop.
You will benefit from strong links with local schools, innovative teaching methods and a friendly and inclusive academic community.
UCAS Code:
Primary Education with Teaching Qualification (Dumfries) MA (Hons): X123 4 year degree
Postgraduate Taught Programmes
We offer a variety of Postgraduate Taught programmes; taught at the School of Social & Environmental Sustainability Dumfries Campus.
MSc Enhanced Practice in Education
This programme will provide you with the skills and confidence to apply principles of practitioner-based enquiry and make effective changes in your place of work. You will develop expertise to initiate and influence positive working relationships across your organisation and beyond.
PGDE Primary Education
This Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) provides you with the skills, knowledge, and experience to develop a career in primary teaching. This GTCS-accredited qualification combines classroom learning with comprehensive placements throughout Dumfries & Galloway.
PGDE Secondary STEM Subjects
Building upon your subject expertise in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, this GTCS-accredited qualification combines classroom learning with comprehensive placements throughout Dumfries & Galloway to help you develop a career in STEM teaching within secondary schools.
Academic Contacts:
MSc Enhanced Practice in Education:
PGDE Primary Education:
Lizanne.Henderson@glasgow.ac.uk
PGDE STEM Secondary Subjects:
Postgraduate Research Opportunities
We would particularly welcome applicants with an interest in taking postgraduate research degrees (PhD/MPhil) in:
- language and literacy, with a focus on both the science of reading and second-language acquisition (including second language learning for disadvantaged groups such as young ethnic minority learners and those with dyslexia).
- careers education, including STEM education; apprenticeships; adult education; narratives of success; skills development.
- education policy, including multi-agency working; international comparative work; policy meta-analysis; democratic policy involvement and co-design methodologies; citizenship and political education; extremism; impact of policy on marginalised communities including care experience; racial and religious minorities; learners with disabilities; traveller and rural communities.
- rights, values & identity, with a focus on narratives of identity and narrative methods, including policy analysis and ethnographic methods. Specific themes include: citizenship education; character virtue development; religious and moral education; digital and data justice; migration and diversity; sustainability.