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MSc PG Dip PG Cert Educational Leadership and Management

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    MSc/PGDip/PGCert Up to 1 year full-time, up to 2 years part-time distance learning

Course Description

If you’re currently working, or aspire to work in an education-connected role and want to gain a qualification that demonstrates that you have developed your leadership and management skills, our Educational Leadership and Management course is for you.

Offered as a MSc, PgDip and PgCert, you can study this course full-time, part-time or part-time by distance learning. The MSc and PgDip take one year full time and two years part time. The PgCert takes six months full time and one year part time.

You’ll work collaboratively with other students, teaching staff and industry experts from educational institutes, as you learn how to take your enthusiasm for education and use it to better the sector through challenging conventional thinking, identifying common problems in the sector, such as time management, and creating solutions for them.

You’ll be encouraged to critique the way the education sector works, and prepare yourself to take positive and decisive action as an educational leader, able to respond to issues in education such as accessibility and classroom management and to create and implement new approaches to teaching.

Entry Requirements

Qualifications or experience

  • A minimum of a second-class honours degree, and experience in an educational setting.

English language requirements

  • English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 (or equivalent) with no component score below 6.0.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

You’ll graduate with the skills and knowledge you need to to seek out ambitious job roles and take on new responsibilities in educational leadership and management.

This course is ideal for teachers, trainers, lecturers and instructors across the educational sector, who aspire to senior leadership and management positions. Build on your previous studies and experience to bring your skills, theories and expertise to a postgraduate level.

Designed as an industry led course, teaching staff work with and consult experts in the education sector to build a curriculum that reflects the current field, its methods and challenges. Helping you to graduate with the rich academic knowledge, industry know-how and the confidence to advance your career in education.

Graduates of this course have gone onto work in areas such as:

  • School management
  • Higher education institutions management
  • Teacher education
  • Course leading and management

Module Details

Core

  • Human Resource Management in Education – 30 credits
  • Leadership, Policy and Strategy: The Management of Educational Change – 30 credits
  • Research Methods in Education – 30 credits

Optional

  • Decision Making in Education – 30 credits
  • Education in a Global Context – 30 credits
  • Theory and Practice of TESOL - 30 credits
  • Project Management: Tools and Techniques - 30 credits
  • Dissertation - 60 credits
  • Work Based Project - 30 credits

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