Entry Requirements

A good Undergraduate Honours Degree (upper second class) or equivalent is required. The MA AL-ELT additionally requires a minimum of two year's approved teaching experience (or equivalent).

For the distance learning mode, those whose first language is not English must achieve an overall score on the British Council IELTS (International English Language Testing System) test of at least 7.0, or the equivalent TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score (including the writing test).

Normally, entrants should have taken an undergraduate degree in English or a related topic (or the equivalent). However, applicants for Distance Learning programmes are more likely than standard entry applicants to have non-standard qualifications.  An applicant’s first degree, for instance, might not be relevant to the course applied for, but this might be superseded by post-degree professional work experience in a relevant field. Distance Learning applicants are very often at a mid or at late career stage and thus have not been in the higher education system for some time, so that it may be difficult for them to obtain relevant academic references. These factors are taken account of in our admissions procedures.