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The University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh Futures Institute MSc in Education Futures
The University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh Futures Institute

MSc in Education Futures

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 up to 3 Years

English

Full time, Part time

29 May 2025

Sep 2025

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Distance Learning, On-Campus

Key Summary

    About: The MSc in Education Futures equips students with the skills to address contemporary educational challenges. It focuses on innovative approaches to learning and teaching, preparing graduates to lead initiatives that enhance educational practices.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles in educational leadership, curriculum design, policy development, and technology integration in education. They may work in schools, educational institutions, non-profits, or government agencies, shaping the future of education.

Introduction

A new, interdisciplinary degree with the Edinburgh Futures Institute

Education, in all its forms, is essential to a thriving society. How organisations, systems and people learn and change profoundly affects our lives, our surroundings and our futures. This MSc is a bold new programme for those who wish to engage critically with educational possibilities for the future, and understand how educational knowledge, organisations, spaces and relationships can positively shape societies.

The EFI Education Futures programme is designed to respond to the need for creative, critical and experimental thinking across education in schools, universities and colleges, and learning within communities, industries and organisations. Some of the issues you will explore include mobility, politics, environmental change, culture, social justice and how data-driven systems for managing and understanding the world influence learning and education.

You will explore the ways that knowledge, culture and skills are produced and reproduced, how people, organisations and systems learn, and how this influences global challenges and change. Your studies on this programme will support you to:

  • think ambitiously about the future of education across all sectors
  • gain vital data and creative skills to support your future career
  • apply innovative methods to building a strong future for education and learning

Postgraduate Study at the Edinburgh Futures Institute

This programme is part of an interconnected portfolio of postgraduate study in the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI). EFI supports interdisciplinary teaching, learning and research that is focussed on complex global and social challenges.

Our programmes are all taught by academic experts from many different subject areas. As an EFI student, you will develop creative, critical and data-informed thinking that cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries. You will have the space to think deeply about questions linked to your own passions and professional goals, and will develop a project based on an issue that you care about.

As well as knowledge specific to your area of study, studying at EFI will give you the skills and understanding you need to become a creative, confident and critical citizen in a fast-changing world. These will include:

  • core data skills
  • data ethics
  • the ability to interrogate issues of global scope
  • the creative and analytic approaches to knowledge that are vital for building better futures

You can join us regardless of whether you already have skills in the use and application of digital data.

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