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Master of Education (Special and Inclusive Education)
PostgraduateUSQ-SPE-MAS2024
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Advance your career and make a real impact in education
Get ready to meet the demand for specialist educators who support challenged learners. You’ll learn to identify and improve on reading and maths difficulties. Gain skills in behaviour management. Develop programs. Guide teachers or work directly with students.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- Approx. 1.5 years full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 12
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Master of Education (Special and Inclusive Education)
About this degree
On successful completion of the program, graduates should be able to:
- Synthesise and apply advanced theoretical and technical knowledge to contemporary and emerging educational issues, ideas, policies, and debates with regard to professional practice.
- Analyse and evaluate complex educational contexts to critically reflect on cultural norms and practices in educational settings nationally and globally.
- Communicate effectively in academic, professional, and community contexts through multiple modes.
- Communicate ways of working respectfully and collaboratively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities, and culturally and linguistically diverse peoples and communities.
- Develop creative and effective ways to implement contextually relevant educational innovation.
- Design and conduct ethical research responsive to educational theories, practices, and contexts.
- UniSQ's Master of Education (Special and Inclusive Education) builds your specialist knowledge and skills required to work within education settings facilitating the inclusion of all learners, particularly those with disabilities and additional learning needs. Extend your specialist knowledge, experience and skills working with students with learning difficulties. Enhance your role in a range of specialised contexts applying contemporary, evidence-based pedagogies, whether supporting general education teachers to develop and implement individualised programs for students with diverse learning needs, or working directly with small groups, or a classroom of students.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
EDU8326 Learning Difficulties: Mathematics
EDU8509 Positive Behaviour Support within School Contexts
EDU8707 Wellbeing in Educational Contexts
EDU8324 Learning Difficulties: Reading
EDU8706 Differentiation
EDR8801 Foundations of Research in Education
EDU5324 Trauma, Behaviour and Learning
ADU8338 Autism
EDR8802 Foundation Methods for Research in Education
Year 2
EDR8061 Master of Education Project (2-unit)
EDU5321 Educating Students with Special Needs
Award requirements
Completion of 12 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Exit points
Graduate Diploma of Education, Graduate Certificate of Education.
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Indicative total fee $6,667
The amount shown here is indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.
As Australia’s #1 university for graduate starting salary (Good Universities Guide, 2022), University of Southern Queensland is the right place to make real progress. Regardless of your education history, your age or your aspirations, at UniSQ you’ll be inspired by quality learning experiences matched with top resources and research. Having delivered distance and online learning for over 40+ years, UniSQ supports you to learn at your own pace—exactly how it suits you.
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- 24
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- 24
Entry requirements
- Approved bachelor degree, or equivalent, in Education. Candidates with a bachelor degree, or equivalent, in a non-related discipline may be eligible for entry into UniSQ's Graduate Certificate of Education. Upon completion and achievement of a minimum GPA of 4.0, they may apply for entry into the Master of Education.Proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Career opportunities
Upon graduation you will be well prepared to develop and implement individualised programs for students with diverse learning needs, or working directly with individuals, small groups, or a classroom of students. Career outcomes include opportunities within special and inclusive education. Career opportunities may also be pursued within the disability sector, training sector, human services and community-based government organisations.
Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
Role | Earnings | Employment change |
|---|---|---|
Private Tutors and Teachers | N/A^ | Up 9% |
Special Education Teachers | N/A^ | Up 15.5% |
^ There is no data available