Course summary
Overview 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. If you're more interested in the theoretical perspectives that underpin education in general, please take a look at our MA Education Studies course. Eligibility This course accepts UK, EU, and international students. What you'll experience
- Challenge conventional thinking and develop the skillset and confidence you need to identify problems in the educational sector and find solutions for them
- Begin your postgraduate education with a choice of an MSc, PgDip or PgCert course
- Benefit from the rich industry knowledge and experience of teaching staff as you gain theoretical knowledge and professional know-how on this industry led course
- Use the skills you acquire to ready yourself for your next promotion, to change jobs or go international with your career
- Network with industry professionals from the education sector, guest lecturers and other students through events, lectures, seminars and social media channels
- School management
- Higher education institutions management
- Teacher education
- Course leading and management
- 1 year (full-time)
- 2 years (part-time)
- Up to 3 hours of teaching time per module each week
- Up to 10 hours of independent study per module each week
Modules
Full-time Core modules
- Human Resource Management in Education – 30 credits
- Leadership, Policy and Strategy: The Management of Educational Change – 30 credits
- Research Methods in Education – 30 credits
- Dissertation – 60 credits
- 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
- Work Based Project - 30 credits
Assessment method
You'll be assessed through:
- online tests and quizzes
- reflective commentaries
- case studies
- article critiques
- essays
- reports
- digital presentations
- research proposal
- dissertation
Professional bodies
Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.
- Chartered Management Institute
Entry requirements
A minimum of a second-class honours degree, and experience in an educational setting.
English language requirements
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with no component score below 6.0. | |
| Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 169. | |
| Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 169. | |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 91 with a minimum of 20 in Reading, 19 in Listening, 21 in Speaking and 20 in Writing. | |
| PTE Academic | An overall score of 61 with a minimum of 54 in each skill. |
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| EU | £10400 | Year 1 |
| England | £10400 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £10400 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £10400 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £10400 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £10400 | Year 1 |
| Republic of Ireland | £10400 | Year 1 |
| International | £17900 | Year 1 |
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
Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship
Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice.
Fees may also go up in later years, in line with inflation.
Provider information
University of Portsmouth
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP