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The Professional Doctorate in Educational Leadership is an advanced program designed for experienced educators and administrators seeking to enhance their leadership skills within educational settings. This course typically combines rigorous academic study with practical applications, focusing on the latest research and theories in educational leadership. Participants engage in critical analysis of educational policies and practices, learning how to navigate complex challenges within school systems. Emphasis is placed on cultivating effective leadership strategies, fostering innovation in education, and developing the capacity to drive positive change within educational institutions. Graduates of this program are equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to assume leadership roles at various levels within the field of education, shaping policy and practice to improve outcomes for students and communities. Prospective students may register to be notified when the next intake is available.
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Course Coordinator: Prof. Christopher Bezzina
The Master in Teaching and Learning (MTL) is an entry-level qualification for becoming a teacher. By following this course, you will specialise in Pedagogical Content Knowledge (after having obtained a first-cycle degree at first-cycle level in Content Knowledge), in Educational Context Knowledge and in Educational Research and Inquiry. These are intrinsically related to the Field Placement in schools. Furthermore, the wider educational context will be included in the programme through Educational Themes and Creative Positive Learning Environments. The MTL bridges theory and practice thereby forming you into a reflective, inquiring and collegial professional educator. It promotes teaching and learning for democracy and social justice.
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Should you require further information, contact us via email educ@um.edu.mt or phone 2340 3058.
The Faculty of Education has been offering the Master of Education (M.Ed) course for a significant number of years. Since its inception, the principle behind the design of the M.Ed. course was to provide the Maltese teaching community with qualified teachers who are researchers. This Masters degree is meant to encourage qualified teachers to deepen their knowledge in an area of specialization within the field of education. The Master of Education programme of study is administered by the M.Ed. Board of Studies appointed by the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Education. The Board of Studies is responsible for all M.Ed. degrees awarded by the Faculty.
The research areas on offer in October 2026 are available , along with the corresponding academic expert. Please contact the relevant academic to discuss your research idea further.
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M.Ed. Board of Studies Chairperson: Prof. Joseph Giordmaina
This master’s course is designed to confront the problems of leadership in the educational setting. It will focus on the development of managerially-oriented competencies and leadership development. The aim of the course is to encourage you to reflect analytically and constructively on the nature of your own current experiences at whatever level you are currently working in. The programme presents an intellectually challenging, developmental opportunity if you aspire to bring leadership to senior-level educational administration positions in schools, post-secondary institutions and Directorate levels. The programme is designed to provide the knowledge base that will equip you to harness human and other resources necessary to assure highly effective educational institutions. It is organized round what educational leaders need to know and be able to do in order both to understand societal needs and demands regarding education, and to be able to create transformative change that is responsive to societal requirements.
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Course Coordinator: Dr James Calleja
This master's is a transdisciplinary professional master focusing on the inclusion of disabled persons and persons with mental health problems in schools and in the community. This master's is open to various professionals (educators, psychologists, psychology graduates, occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, physiotherapists, nurses and social workers) if you are intending to develop your competencies in inclusive community-based and person-centred transdisciplinary collaborative teamwork. The course shares some core study units with the other streams developing a common discourse with professionals working in other fields and, at the same time, with other practitioners working with disabled persons and persons with mental health problems. The overriding theme is the development of person-centred programmes facilitating self-determination and quality of life for active participation in education and community life.
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Course Coordinator: Dr Louis John Camilleri
Children in our schools now come from very varied backgrounds and home situations, including many coming from different EU countries as well as other countries across the world. Teachers face the challenge of different cultures, values, languages, religions, calendar of festivities, and student motivations. The MAE(CRE) is aimed at preparing you, as teachers and other support professionals, for taking a leading role in schools and other educational institutions for promoting 'training and support in the use of pedagogies that are inclusive in nature and cater for diversity' (NCF). You will deepen your understanding about the development of more responsive attitudes towards student diversity and socially just policies and practices. The course can also serve to enhance your capacity as a classroom teacher to become aware of the risk of discrimination against minority or disadvantaged groups, and to understand, value and support each of their students more effectively.
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Course Coordinator: Dr Francois Mifsud
This programme aims to develop your knowledge of higher education as an area of study and research with special interest in digital education. This international, study programme is designed to provide you with an open and networked learning experience as you develop and strengthen your knowledge of contemporary higher education, prioritising academic commitments of learning, teaching and research in educationally open and networked ways. This course will strengthen your knowledge and skills of learning and teaching as part of an international learning network of field experts and peers. You will engage in “collaborative, cooperative and collective inquiry, knowledge-creation and knowledgeable action, underpinned by trusting relationships, motivated by a sense of shared challenge and enabled by convivial technologies” (Networked Learning Editorial Collective, 2020).
This part-time programme (offered in English) convenes fully online, permitting you to study at your own flexibility. You have three exit-award possibilities – post-graduate certification, post-graduate diploma, and Masters in Open and Networked Higher Education.
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Course Coordinator: Dr Maria Cutajar
The Master of Arts in Social Practice Arts and Critical Education invites you as a professional and freelance arts-oriented person to connect your creative work with critical educational theories and community settings. This interdisciplinary postgraduate degree offers you the possibility of linking theatre, visual arts and education in a unique, socially engaged programme that brings together theoretical and project-based studies. If you are a graduate in theatre studies, fine arts, drama education, art education or a stakeholder involved in culture and community projects to further develop your entrepreneurial, pedagogical and social skills as well as artistic skills.
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Course Coordinator: Prof. Raphael Vella
The Postgraduate Certificate course in the Teaching of Ethics in Schools provides an overview of different ethical theories and the developmental stages of moral development, as well as the main theories of curriculum development. The course explores some issues such as the political and ethical complexities of pedagogical relations in the ethics class, and the relationship between morality and spirituality. It also delves into the methodologies for the teaching of Ethics in schools and the best methods for assessing the knowledge, skills and dispositions related to the subject. The course extends over a period of one year of part-time studies and is also offered at the Gozo Campus. Lectures are held in the evening, normally spread over two days a week. Some of these lectures may be delivered online.
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Course Coordinator: Dr Lucianne Zammit
The course is intended if you are a qualified teacher who would like to enhance your professional training by pursuing specialisation in the area of Teaching Maltese as a Foreign Language. The course shall extend over a period of one year of part-time study. A relevant number of study-units will be offered every semester, and if you are an eligible applicant, then you may register as a visiting student for individual study-units and obtain credit for them. The programme of study is assigned 30 ECTS credits, and a small number of options are offered depending on your teaching context and experience. Having experience in the Teaching of Maltese as a Foreign Language (TMFL) is not a necessary pre-requisite to the postgraduate programme.
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Course Coordinator: Prof. Antoinette Camilleri Grima
The Postgraduate Certificate in Developing the Educator (PGCDE) programme of studies offers participants CPD opportunities to assume the much-needed agency in planning their own personal professional development by taking short courses that eventually lead them to a postgraduate certification. In developing the educator, this programme offers a set of four core study units – The Action Researcher, The Reflective Educator, Lesson Study & Co-Teaching – based on developing the research, reflective and collaborative skills and competencies of educators. In addition, the PGCDE offers a wide range of elective courses from which one can self-regulate and design their own programme of studies.
Course Coordinator: Dr James Calleja
The Faculty of Education is proposing the implementation of school-based mentoring during next scholastic year (2020 - 2021). The aim is for a number of Teacher Mentors to support and follow student-teachers during their field placement in schools during their Master in Teaching and Learning course. These Teacher Mentors will provide an ongoing, well-informed and reassuring presence in the student-teachers’ professional life during their field placement and Block Practicum so as to create the space for professional interactions, as and when required, that would help safeguard the interests of the students in class and contribute to the professional development of prospective teachers. An ongoing dialogue between the Teacher Mentor and the student-teacher / s will help ensure the development of a community of practice and initiate student-teachers in their journey of becoming reflective practitioners.
Course Coordinator: Dr Michelle Attard Tonna