Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Professional Practice (Top-up) (Hons) University of Greater Manchester

Overview

Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Professional Practice (Top-up) (Hons) offered by the University of Greater Manchester provides a valuable way to use your existing qualifications and knowledge to obtain a degree at the University of Greater Manchester. You’ll have the chance to study a balanced combination of current educational policy and issues, and draw in relevant aspects of sociology, philosophy and psychology. It’s a great opportunity to explore in-depth some of the key current issues affecting education in the UK and abroad.

By thinking about how we learn, we’ll guide you in an exploration of how formal learning, alongside acquired knowledge, shapes our lives, interests and value structures. We’ll also encourage you to research and analyse a range of educational practices, reflecting on your own and others’ experiences of education. This will help you think critically about teaching, learning and assessing and how education is perceived and received.

Students at Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Professional Practice (Top-up) (Hons) from the University of Greater Manchester will:

• reflect on their current roles and responsibilities to build on the experience they've gained in educational settings and learn from the learning and teaching they’ve observed.

• contribute to research and discussion through critical reflection on their own education and by listening to the experiences of others.

• be awarded the BA (Hons) Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Professional Practice from the University of Greater Manchester.