This course equips you with the critical tools to understand and respond to the evolving role of education in a rapidly changing global landscape. As international development faces new challenges, from shifting geopolitical alliances and security concerns to funding realignments and climate-related crises; education remains a vital site of both contestation and transformation.
The course enables you to explore how education intersects with global policy, diplomacy, humanitarian response, and peacebuilding. It offers a rigorous foundation in theory, policy, and practice, alongside training in research methods and analysis – skills that are increasingly valued across sectors including international organisations, NGOs, government agencies, and research institutions.
There will be opportunities for you to be introduced to a number of key international development organisations involved in education and learn more about the nature of their work, as well as to find out about professional development opportunities. In previous years, students have organised career development events and benefited from volunteering opportunities via the Students’ Union UCL Volunteering Service.
It is intended that you, by fully participating in the course, will develop the following:
Graduates of this course are currently working across 30 different countries in a broad range of areas and sectors, both within the field of education and international development worldwide, and in other varied and diverse roles. Approximately 33% of graduates who have responded to graduate outcome surveys are currently engaged in teaching or other educational activities. They have been employed in education roles, in local and international NGOs, donor and multi-lateral agencies, national and local education departments, schools and universities. Some students continue on to doctoral study or to further postgraduate study Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of graduates in the 2018–2024 cohorts.