Course Overview
This course is for you if you're already employed and looking for a qualification to enhance your professional practice. The course will be delivered by a high-quality staff team, including experts in their fields of study with leadership experience in educational settings.
The MEd Educational Leadership is a part-time, blended learning course designed for professionals working in education who are already in or want to move into leadership roles.
You'll develop your understanding of leadership, educational leadership's purposes, school improvement, and the international, national and local policy contexts that shape how leadership is enacted.
You'll gain a thorough grounding in research methods and reasoning which will enable you to study an area of specific interest to yourself through a dissertation.
The course draws on recent insights into educational leadership across the world. It focuses on leadership in a range of educational settings:
pre-school
school
further education
higher education
the voluntary sector
The course will enable you to:
Build on your existing knowledge and understanding skills.
Develop insights into your professional development and your understanding of yourself as a leader.
Build understanding which will enable you to develop your leadership capacities and skills.
Specialise in an area of specific interest to yourself.
General Eligibility
Academic requirements/experience
An excellent undergraduate degree, relevant professional qualification, a teaching qualification (or its equivalent), or relevant experience within an educational setting.
Part Time Work Details
20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.
Language Requirement