Handbook - Education

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Overview

The Doctor of Education program serves the needs of top-level education professionals who wish to consolidate their theoretical understandings and to apply these in educational practice. The aim of the Doctor of Education program is to serve the needs of top-level education professionals who wish to consolidate, refine and expand … For more content click the Read More button below. Intake for this program happens biennially, in odd-numbered years. See UNSW Higher Degree Research Learning Outcomes.

The Doctor of Education program serves the needs of top-level education professionals who wish to consolidate their theoretical understandings and to apply these in educational practice.

The aim of the Doctor of Education program is to serve the needs of top-level education professionals who wish to consolidate, refine and expand their theoretical understandings and to apply these in educational practice. The orientation of the program is therefore towards the improvement of professional practice by the application of research findings to the problems, issues and development of teaching, learning, and educational management and politics.

Intake for this program happens biennially, in odd-numbered years.

See UNSW Higher Degree Research Learning Outcomes.

Program Structure

Students must complete 144 UOC when taken as a standalone program.

Candidates are required to complete eight coursework components, normally including two research methodology courses and a small project that will scaffold candidates in completing an original piece of substantive research, culminating in a thesis (50-60,000 words). The EdD degree may be completed over 3 years full-time or 6 years part-time.

Course component48 Units of Credit:

Students must take 48 UOC of the following courses.

Current Issues in Education 2

EDST5035

6 UOC

Current Issues in Education 1

Thesis component144 Units of Credit:

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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirements

Minimum Entry Requirements

A candidate for the degree shall have been awarded a first or upper-second class (Distinction) Honours degree in education OR a Masters (Coursework) degree in education with a distinction average and a significant research component, consisting of methodology training and a stand-alone research project, or a qualification considered equivalent from another university or tertiary institution at a level acceptable to the Committee; and

Have completed at least three years' professional experience in a branch of education, or in some other area that is judged by the Committee to be appropriate; and

In exceptional cases an applicant who submits evidence of such other academic and professional qualifications as may be approved by the Committee may be permitted to enrol for the degree.

For further information, see the Admission to Higher Degree Research Programs Procedure.

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Program Requirements

Progression Requirements

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Additional Information

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Program Fees

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