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dastardly
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 Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 2:20 am Post subject: Building an entirely Modular MEd from several different Unis |
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Is this possible?
To explain my situation - currently working in a British Uni supporting dyslexic students (after a long ESOL career) and last year I completed a PG Cert in Learning and Teaching in HE (basically this is the new teaching qualification they are pushing all Uni Lecturers in all subjects to have). It's worth a third of an MEd degree (60 points at MEd level), or, as the thing says, a PG Cert.
My Uni has now sent me on an Open University course so that I can assess dyslexic students - this is again 60 points at Masters level in Education, bringing me up to 120 points or a PG Dip.
Now basically I have two thirds of an MED here. Unfortunately, up till this year the Open University would have let me do one other course and I would have an MEd, but unfortunately they have changed the rules this year so you have to do an introductory course in Educational Research. Not only is this pointless after having already done most of the Masters, but I would much rather do something job-related (TESOL, Linguistics) and so build a Masters that really fits my dual career in both ESOL and Dyslexia.
So now I'm stuck with two-thirds of an MEd and most of the places I've looked at only allow Credit Transfer of 60 points rather than the 120 I have.
So does anyone know of anywhere reputable that will allow credit transfer of all my points and allow me to finish my MEd with them?
Thanks a lot. |
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GambateBingBangBOOM
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:27 am Post subject: Re: Building an entirely Modular MEd from several different |
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| dastardly wrote: |
| last year I completed a PG Cert in Learning and Teaching in HE (basically this is the new teaching qualification they are pushing all Uni Lecturers in all subjects to have). It's worth a third of an MEd degree (60 points at MEd level), or, as the thing says, a PG Cert. |
Just to check- this means ONE TERM, right? Like 4 half courses / modules / units (of a 12 half course/ module/ unit masters)? Isn't a PGCE a year-long program?
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My Uni has now sent me on an Open University course so that I can assess dyslexic students - this is again 60 points at Masters level in Education, bringing me up to 120 points or a PG Dip. |
And this is a second term?
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Now basically I have two thirds of an MED here. Unfortunately, up till this year the Open University would have let me do one other course and I would have an MEd, but unfortunately they have changed the rules this year so you have to do an introductory course in Educational Research. Not only is this pointless after having already done most of the Masters, but I would much rather do something job-related (TESOL, Linguistics) and so build a Masters that really fits my dual career in both ESOL and Dyslexia.
So now I'm stuck with two-thirds of an MEd and most of the places I've looked at only allow Credit Transfer of 60 points rather than the 120 I have. |
Masters degrees are usually either SPECIFICALLY interdisciplinary (a masters degree in "interdisciplinary arts" or "Music and Literature" [you study the fuzzy overlapping area where literature talks about music "music of the Spheres" mentioned in Taming of the Shrew is actually a big topic in Renaissance Musicology, as well as studying the opera choices of source literature and of course differences in historical periods of each art]) or are in one subject ("Applied Lingusitics" or "TESOL" etc).
I think you may have two choices:
1. Suck it up and take the 'useless' course to get the M.Ed from Open University (it would therefore be an 'interdisciplinary' masters in education without a single focus).
2. since you want to do something job related (you said TESOL or Applied Linguistics) then you could apply to a Masters degree in TESOL or Applied Linguistics, using the teaching and learning (if they'll accept it), and get a Post Grad in the Dyslexia area. You would end up with a M.Ed in TESOL (or something like that) and a PGC in Dyslexia. If you decide to do it this way, then you could look into the M.Ed (TESOL) off-campus through Deakin University in Australia. That program is a masters degree in TESOL, but involves a lot of 'generic' faculty of education units- masters units that aren't specific to one major or another, counting as electives for many masters degrees offered through the faculty of education. They may give you transfer credit for some of them.
Teaching Adults (university students), Assessing Dyslexia and TESOL are all different areas. Your problem is that you already have 1/3 of A (a third of a masters in Adult Education) and 1/3 of B (a third of a masters in helping people with Dyslexia). You want to get transfer credit to get 2/3 of C (two thirds of a masters in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). All three are education (related) areas. But they are different areas.
Often people who want qualifications to reflect a dual career end up getting a masters degree in EACH of those career areas. It isn't uncommon for people to have a masters in TESOL or whatever AND a postgraduate diploma in another work area which they eventually build up into a masters in that area (their 2nd masters degree). Each of those masters may have elements of the other, and then if you've found a strong link between the two areas (often articulated through a dissertation in the second of the masters) then that could eventually become a doctorate in the future. |
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dastardly
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I suspect you're right, it's just annoying that the OU changed their rules about the compulsory course this year. Prior to that I could have done a module in Linguistics, a module in Dyslexia and then transferred credit from my Teaching in HE course and walked away with a generic unnamed Masters (which is good enough for me). Now it seems I can't even get a generic Masters (let alone a named one, which I accept was something of a pipe dream) without doing this compulsory course. And as you say if I want a named one I'd need to do two additional modules on top of that, in which case I'd end up with an MEd, and MEd (Applied Linguistics) and an MA (from previous study). Plus it would be an additional two years of study, an additional �3000 in fees and I would be hideously overqualified.
I may well just have to suck it up and do the compulsory course - unless anyone has any ideas?
Thanks again for the reply. |
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