MA in International Child Rights and Development
London, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
09 Mar 2025*
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 30,000 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* first application deadline
** International students | UK students: £13,500 per year
Introduction
Our International Child Rights and Development MA is a multidisciplinary course designed to promote a rigorous academic approach to contemporary issues of childhood internationally. Underpinned by a children’s rights framework, it will help you develop the skills needed for successful multi-agency and multi-professional work and research with and for children in complex contexts.
Key benefits
- Multidisciplinary approach
- Covers the latest developments in issues that affect childhood globally
- Taught by a wide range of external expert speakers, as well as our own staff, from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds
- Provides the opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences with students from different disciplines
Course essentials
Our multidisciplinary course encourages you to take a rigorous academic and analytical approach to issues of contemporary childhood. It is relevant for anyone working or intending to work with, or on behalf of, children and young people internationally particularly those working or aspiring to work in the humanitarian sector overseas or in statutory or voluntary services in the UK.
While underpinned by a children’s rights perspective, we draw on a range of disciplines including sociology and public policy, psychology, education, health and law. We adapt the curriculum and teaching to take account of contemporary global events of significance to the lives of children and young people. Assignments allow students to tailor the programme to their own interests to a significant extent.
Duration: One year full-time, September to September, two years part-time
Admissions
Curriculum
Structure
Programmes are divided into modules. You will take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required modules
Courses are divided into modules. You will take modules totalling 180 credits.
You are required to take the following modules:
- Children’s Rights (30 credits)
- Child Protection (30 credits)
- Dissertation (60 Credits)
Optional modules
In addition, you are required to take 60 credits from a range of options that may include:
- Child Health and Development (30 credits)
- Research Methods (15 credits)
- Global Childhood (30 credits)
30 credits from any MA Education programmes or other programme offered at King’s College London subject to availability and timetabling at the discretion of the Programme Director.
Please note: students who are transferring in up to 60 Master’s level credits (e.g. from a PGCE, if taken within 10 years of your completion date of this MA course) will be exempt from the corresponding number of optional module credits, but must take the 60 credit required dissertation research module, as well as the two compulsory taught modules. If your credit transfer is approved, you will also be eligible for a proportional fee reduction, which will be processed following your enrolment into the programme.
King’s College London reviews the modules offered regularly to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, the modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.
Please note that modules with a practical component will be capped due to educational requirements, which may mean that we cannot guarantee a place for all students who elect to study this module.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
In addition to progressing to PhD study, our graduates are using the skills and knowledge they developed over this course in organisations such as UNICEF, World Vision, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Children and Families Across Borders, and DG ECHO (the Humanitarian Aid arm of the EU).