Faculty of Education

This is a well-established, popular master's, oriented to the needs of professionals and researchers in education and strongly supported by a broad range of experts in the field, aimed at principals, heads and leaders in all areas of education.

Course outline

This course is suited to educators (government and non-government schools, universities and TAFE). It exposes you to theory and to national and international educational practices so you can link diverse practices with your own experiences and broaden your knowledge and improve practices. It provides an opportunity for you to develop specialised research skills leading to further professional research.

The Master of Educational Management by coursework comprises a research unit, five optional units and a major paper (10,000 words)

• EDUC8631 Approaches to Research
• EDUC8620 / EDUC8621  Master's Major Paper (12 points)

Two of

• EDUC8610 Human Resource Development in Education
• EDUC8612 Educational Leadership
• EDUC8658 Education Policy Trends: Global to Local

Three of

• EDUC8608 E-learning
• EDUC8610 Human Resource Development in Education
• EDUC8612 Educational Leadership
• EDUC8616 International and Comparative Education
• EDUC8633 Quantitative Inquiry
• EDUC8634 Qualitative Inquiry
• EDUC8636 Assessment and Measurement
• EDUC8637 Measurement and Evaluation
• EDUC8638 Introduction to Rasch Measurement of Modern Test Theory
• EDUC8639 Developmental Aspects of Exceptionality
• EDUC8644 Global English
• EDUC8658 Education Policy Trends: Global to Local
• EDUC8662 Action Research and Curriculum Innovation
• EDUC8678 Curriculum Context, Development and Innovation

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Admission requirements

Domestic students

Applicants must meet the admission requirements, or equivalent as recognized by the Faculty:

A. A four-year Bachelor of Education; and
B. (i) two years professional experience in Education, or
     (ii) demonstrated research capacity acceptable to the Faculty.
OR
1. a degree requiring at least four years of full-time study; and
2. two years professional experience in Education, and
3. demonstrated research capacity acceptable to the Faculty
OR
completion of an articulated graduate diploma of this Faculty.

All UWA coursework programs: English Language Competence

International students

Requirements are the same as for domestic students above.

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