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PROGRAMME SPECS

Programme
Specifications

Programme Outline and Structure

This programme, aimed primarily at Imperial College and
associated staff, is a three-stage work/practice-based approach to
the study of learning and teaching in the University setting. Whilst
this tailored approach focuses on the Imperial College perspective,
it uses this common starting point to engage students in a scholarly
study of the field of education. The aim is to facilitate a critical
engagement with both generic and discipline specific educational
theory and literature with a focus on the students’ need and
practice to ensure relevance and utility.

This applied, work-and evidence-based approach to enquiry and allows students to investigate and inform
learning and teaching provides our students, who are their practice with valid educational enquiry for a
often experts in their own primary discipline, with dissertation. Completion of all three stages results in
an introduction to educational language, literature the full Master’s degree (MEd) in University Learning
and theory. It does not attempt to produce experts in and Teaching.
education but to help students to take an evidence-
based critical approach to engaging with the field Each stage is work-based with teaching and
of education as informed experts from another assessment centred on the students’ disciplinary
academic field. teaching and requires a critical engagement with
disciplinary educational ideas, approaches and
The first stage of the three-stage process is a literature. To reflect this, the programme title is
Postgraduate Certificate (PG Cert), a course that ‘University Learning and Teaching’.
develops students as reflective practitioners. The
second stage expands students’ knowledge of
teaching beyond their personal experience by critical
engagement with wider generic and disciplinary
educational theory. Together these two stages
comprise the Postgraduate Diploma (PG Dip). The
last stage adds training and support in education

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