Qualifications that provide direct access to the Master of Education at the University of Andorra:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Equivalent qualifications, recognised by Government of Andorra

A Prior Learning Assessment may be requested to analyse any equivalences between the study programme of the student’s prior studies and that of the master’s degree.

Routes depending on prior studies

The course offers two different routes, with compulsory itineraries in each of them. The route the student takes depends on whether they hold a Bachelor of Teaching and Learning degree or any other first-cycle university qualification:

Students coming from the Bachelor of Teaching and Learning (or equivalent):

• Democratic Culture itinerary (30 ECTS credits)
• Specialised Teaching itinerary (30 ECTS credits)
• Master’s Degree Dissertation (20 ECTS credits)
• Electives (40 ECTS credits)

Students coming from other first-cycle university courses:

• Democratic Culture itinerary (30 ECTS credits)
• Educational Intervention itinerary (30 ECTS credits)
• Master’s Degree Dissertation (20 ECTS credits)
• Electives (40 ECTS credits)

Students who obtain the Master of Education at the University of Andorra will be able to achieve the following competences:

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY COMPETENCES (associated with all itineraries):

• The ability to communicate effectively with regard to complex issues, both orally and in writing, with specialised audiences or otherwise.
• The ability to identify, critically analyse, summarise and resolve problems to adapt to new or complex situations.
• The ability to use, innovate and apply information technology.
• The ability to work both independently and in multi-disciplinary teams and in international contexts.
• The ability to search, discriminate, organise and use complex information in a specialised professional environment.
• The ability to make decisions and apply the knowledge in accordance with ethical values and socially responsible practices, within the legal framework.
• The ability to plan and organise their learning needs and update their knowledge in a self-managed and independent manner, throughout their professional lives.

SPECIFIC COMPETENCES (associated with each specific itinerary and the Master’s Degree Dissertation):

Democratic Culture itinerary 

• Interpreting the needs and conflicts of a social, cultural and economic reality, in line with the values that promote a democratic culture.
• Designing programmes to develop competences for democratic culture, human rights education and intercultural education in different educational and social institutions.
• Proposing improvements to educational practice that promote competences for democratic culture, human rights education and intercultural education, using evaluation mechanisms.
• Creating participation and decision-making mechanisms for the educational community and society in general based on democratic culture.

Educational Intervention itinerary 

• Planning educational interventions with a holistic approach, keeping in mind pupils’ characteristics and the references provided by educational programmes.
• Managing classroom dynamics that encourage pupil participation and independence, while ensuring that classroom rules are followed, cooperative learning takes place and conflicts are resolved positively.
• Regulating teaching-learning processes by assessing pupils’ competences, as well as encouraging self-regulated learning.
• Adapting elements of the curriculum, methodological variables and available resources – especially technological resources – to pupils’ characteristics and specific, individual needs.
• Guiding the pupils in their learning process and advising pupils and their families regarding educational decisions.
• Managing integrated language and content teaching-learning situations in multilingual and multicultural contexts.

Specialised Teaching itinerary 

• Identifying pupils’ specific educational needs.
• Designing educational strategies and initiatives to respond to pupils’ specific educational needs.
• Managing various resources, techniques and methodologies to cater to diversity, taking pupils’ characteristics and individual needs into account.

Project and Centre Management itinerary 

• Designing educational projects for centres intended to improve pupils’ overall learning process, involving the whole educational community.
• Managing the implementation of educational projects that promote the exchange of ideas, experiences and knowledge, highlight the value of diversity and use resources sustainably.
• Cooperating with different members of the educational community and of society in general to achieve common goals established as part of projects.

Learning and Communication Technologies itinerary 

• Designing learning-teaching sequences that guarantee the creative, critical and safe use of learning and communication technologies.
• Managing educational improvement and innovation processes in line with the needs of the digital era.
• Developing educational settings for virtual learning.

Master’s Degree Dissertation 

• Developing research and innovation projects focusing on the issues and opportunities inherent in educational practice.
• Disseminating research results through different channels, adapting communication to different audiences.

Internships

Internships are integrated into each itinerary.

There are three itineraries in which school internships are compulsory:

• Educational Intervention
• Specialised Teaching
• Project and Centre Management

In the following itineraries, students may choose between a school internship and an end-of-module assignment:

• Democratic Culture
• Learning and Communication Technologies

School internships can take place in schools and institutions within Andorra’s three educational systems, as well as in schools and educational organisations outside of the country. During their internship, the student will have two main points of contact: their school tutor and their academic tutor.

Exchange

To promote student mobility, an exchange model has been designed. It consists of an internship or period of study in an educational centre or university abroad and aims to strengthen the general competences acquired through the master’s degree. This exchange can coincide with the Master’s Degree Dissertation modules.

Student exchanges can be either on-site or remote. In the latter case, the student undertakes online classes at universities with which the UdA has signed an agreement.

Director of the College of Health and Educational Sciences: Virginia Larraz Rada (master.educacio@uda.ad)

The faculty involved in the Master of Education includes both UdA lecturers and professionals from various other educational institutions, both in Andorra and further afield.

The list of lecturers that teach the subjects of the Bachelor can be viewed in the teaching plans of each of the subjects, which have links on the study programme list.

In addition, the Directory of the University of Andorra enables students to search for and access the contact information on the UdA’s teaching, technical and administrative staff.

Holders of the Master of Education, depending on the itineraries chosen, have the professional competences to work as:

• a secondary school, high school or professional training teacher in the field they studied prior to the master’s degree
• an expert in specialised educational intervention
• an expert in the management of educational institutions
• an expert in the design and development of virtual learning projects
• an expert in the design of programmes to develop competences for democratic culture aimed at educational and social institutions
• The following table details career opportunities and routes according to prior studies:

The Master of Education provides access to third cycle studies (doctorates) in the countries in the European Higher Education Area.

• View the UdA Doctoral Programme

Study programme publication (Official Gazette of the Principality of Andorra):

• Decret 319/2023, del 21-6-2023, de modificació del Decret 108/2021, del 31-3-2021, pel qual s’aprova el pla d’estudis del màster en Educació de la Universitat d’Andorra
• Decret 108/2021, del 31-3-2021, pel qual s’aprova el pla d’estudis del màster en Educació de la Universitat d’Andorra

Andorran Agency for the Quality of Higher Education accreditation:

• Evaluation report of the modification of the Master of Education
  
• Evaluation report of the Master of Education