Our students

Our vibrant community is made up of top-class students with strong undergraduate degrees who come from many different parts of the world. Read their advice and thoughts on their experience studying at Edinburgh.

The MSc Transformative Learning and Teaching welcomes around 30 students a year from all over the world, including from Greece, Finland, Spain, the United States of America, United Kingdom and the Philippines.

Ruby, MSc Transformative Learning and Teaching

Lizzie Hay, MSc Transformative Learning and Teaching 2019

'This programme offers the opportunity to gain a profound understanding of transition with site-based learning experience in both primary and secondary schools. Other key elements of the programme for me are the emphasis on social justice and engaging academically at a master’s level, thereby, focusing on criticality and helping to improve practice so that opportunities can be provided for all young people.'

It was my hope that I would be joining a teacher education programme that was political, critical, passionate and proactive about education. I have not once been disappointed. MSc Transformative Learning and Teaching (TLT) is full to the brim with a diverse range of students, lecturers and practitioners who share their values and experiences to extend everyone's capacity to contribute towards meaningful practice in schools and communities. Through lecture content, Site-Based Learning (SBL) and the programme assessment principles MSc TLT offers so many opportunities for personalisation and deep engagement with the topics you feel passionate about. It has been a really profound and responsive journey so far. As I said to the Programme Director recently, “I've found my spiritual home”.

Kathryn Brack2017-18 cohort

This article was published on 1 Nov, 2022