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Educational Leadership (Teach First) at Bath Spa University - UCAS

Bath Spa University

Degree level: Postgraduate

Educational Leadership (Teach First) (Taught)

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2025 - 2026
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Course summary

Build on the leadership skills you gained in your Teach First training to earn a full Master’s degree.

  • Continue your studies and add to your existing PGCE / PGDE to attain a Teach First Master's.
  • Learn how to be an effective leader and use this knowledge to help improve the outcomes of children and young people.
  • Teaching takes place online and outside usual working hours, to fit around your current teaching responsibilities.
If you're an ambitious Teach First graduate, this course develops your leadership and research skills so that you can fast-track your career. Building on the Teach First PGDE or PGCE that you've already completed, it offers an extra 60 or 120 credits. This allows you to “top-up” your previous learning to earn a full MA. Master's degrees are recognised both nationally and internationally, and our graduates can take their expertise into a range of settings and locations. Education offers individuals and communities the best chance to take control of their future. The MA in Educational Leadership at BSU draws on global research and Teach First's values. It encourages you to question, analyse, and evaluate the challenges that education providers face both locally and globally. Leadership in education has many dimensions. You’ll already lead learning in your classroom. Through an extended research project, you'll interrogate leadership as a social construct and relate theory and research to your own context. With this research, you could deliver changes in subject provision, extracurricular activities, departmental initiatives or organisational change. When you graduate, you’ll be able to demonstrate to current and future employers that you’re a teacher-researcher who can lead impactful change in education.

Modules

If you’re a Teach First PGCE graduate, you’ll study part-time over two years. If you’ve gained a Teach First PGDE, you’ll join the second year of the programme and study for one year. Year one (Teach First PGCE graduates only) This year extends your knowledge in leadership and develops your skills as a researcher in educational settings. You’ll complete 60 credits across three modules, before progressing to your research project in the second year. Year two (Teach First PGCE and PGDE graduates) You’ll complete a 60-credit extended, applied research project. This will focus on an area of education theory, policy, or practice relating to leadership within your current context. With individual support from your supervisor and course tutor, you'll take your project from the initial planning stage to final submission. You'll identify the ethical issues that could impact your research and learn to mitigate these. You’ll examine an element of your setting through the lens of leadership. You’ll gain demonstrable experience of leading a project and communicating its impact to stakeholders.

Assessment method

Tutors will assess your progress in a range of ways, including written assignments, research proposals, and an extended research project.

Entry requirements

You'll be working towards, or will have already successfully completed, the 60-credit Teach First PGCE or the 120- credit Teach First PGDE award.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £5990 Whole course
Northern Ireland £5990 Whole course
Scotland £5990 Whole course
Wales £5990 Whole course
Channel Islands £5990 Whole course
Republic of Ireland £5990 Whole course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Educational Leadership (Teach First) at Bath Spa University - UCAS