CONDITIONS AND CRITERIA FOR ADMISSION TO MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME

Lower Secondary School English Language Teacher Training

Valid for the academic year  2025/2026
Article 1: General conditions for admission and enrolment

(1) Applicants file and pay for the electronic application to study through the Information System of Masaryk University between 1 October 2024 - 30 April 2025.

(2) Applicants are required to submit a legalized copy of their Bachelor’s degree certificate. The Bachelor’s degree must be related to English language teaching or another study programme related to English language. Applicants must submit Transcript of Records of the previous BA degree study – a summary of completed courses and including grades, a list of subjects taken for final exams including grades.

Legalized copy stands for:

  • notary notified copy;
  • verified by superlegalization or apostille (if superlegalization or apostille is necessary, check here);
  • notarized translation (if the document is not in English or Czech).

(3) Applicants are further required to:

  • submit a Curriculum Vitae in English;
  • submit a cover letter in English (max. 500 words) explaining why they are interested in the study programme they are applying for;
  • submit English Language Proficiency Certificate;
  • take part in admission exam.
Article 2: Admission examination

(1) Applicants must demonstrate that their English-language skills are at C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (band 7 or higher in IELTS; score 95 or higher in TOEFL; score 120 or higher Duolingo test) must submit a certificate proving their English skills.

(2) Applicants who have completed previous studies in an English-speaking country (e. g. Australia, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom), need not submit the Language Certificate. In other cases, applicants must prove their previous degree programme was conducted in the English language by providing a certificate from university stating that the language of instruction was English.

(3) The first round of online interviews will be held before 15 February 2025, the second round will be held before 15 May, 2025. The applicants will be informed about the exact date and time in advance. The online interview will be 10-15 minutes long and will take place on Zoom or Skype (both audio and video are required).

(4) The applicant is responsible for their internet connection.

Article 3: Conditions for waiving the admission examination

(1) The admission examination may be waivered for applicants admitted to the same study programme of the Faculty of Education, MU for previous academic year.

Article 4: Assessment Criteria

(1) The topics of the admission examination will be previous experience with English language learning and teaching and motivation to start a teacher education study programme. Maximum of 20 points will be awarded during the interview on the basis of assessing the English pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and understanding.

(2) Obtaining 12 points shall be the necessary precondition of admission.

(3) Points from the state final examination of graduates of Bachelor's degree in English Language for Education from the Faculty of Education at MU will be considered in the admission ranking for Master’s degree applications.

Article 5: Upper limit of admitted students

Programme

Maximum number of admitted students

Lower Secondary School English Language Teacher Trainig

70

Article 6: Final provisions

(1) The applicant should submit all the abovementioned documents in Czech or English through the electronic application and send them by post to this address: Pedagogicka fakulta MU, Porici 623/7, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic. The deadline is 30 April 2025.

(2) Based on the result of the admission examination and assessment of the officially certified copies of all abovementioned documents the applicant may or may not be admitted to study. The assessment of the documents is performed by a committee (Admission Board) composed of members appointed by the Dean of the Faculty.

Article 7: Force and Validity

(1) This document was endorsed by the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University on 04. 06. 2024.

(2) This document comes to force on endorsement by the Academic senate of the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University.

(3) This document comes to force on 4. 6. 2024.

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