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UndergraduateCourse summary
The University of Cumbria’s MA Education Leadership provides excellent opportunities for colleagues in both local and international contexts to gain an award at Masters level in just one year. Modules are designed to take account of the your own educational experience and background. Face to face and full time allows you to work within a focused and dynamic academic community on campus. Modules draw on current international research and the resources available to you reflect a wide range of educational research both in the UK and in an international context. This programme will provide professionals with the theoretical basis of education leadership, to inform their practice and understanding of the role of effective leadership as a catalyst for social change. Options at the stage of dissertation take account of the different interests and educational roles and contexts that you aim to work in when you graduate. Course Overview Our full-time MA Education Leadership is designed to help you gain the mastery you need, in terms of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to respond effectively to the changes and challenges in the world of education today. It also provides a choice of themes for study and an approach to extend and develop your educational leadership knowledge, skills and interests for career development. In this MA, you will be able to accumulate credit through the successful completion of modules which are geared to your needs and appropriate to your stage in terms of career and interests. It provides an opportunity to consider theory and practice in education through a wide range of professional lenses; including teacher, lecturer, governance, leadership and management. On this course you will...
- Join an established, world-class education department.
- Be guided by tutors who are experts in their field.
- Enjoy an academic community that has a reputation for excellence.
- Authentic and purposeful assessment.
- Completion of a dynamic, research informed MA Education Leadership in just one year.
Assessment method
You will engage in a variety of different forms of authentic assessment, to provide a creative and balanced strategy across the programme. A range of engaging and challenging opportunities, that are relevant to the needs of the workplace, allow for effective feedback to enable student success. The focus of assessments is particularly designed to be relevant to the needs and interests of you as an individual with an emphasis on the interaction between leadership theory and practice in education. The programme promotes the concept of ‘assessment for learning’ through formative and summative assessment opportunities in each module. Formative Assessment is designed to help you learn more effectively by giving them feedback on their performance in order to indicate how it can be improved and sustained. The formative assessment tasks included in each module will help you to make progress in terms of preparation for the summative assessment. There is a direct relationship between the formative and the summative assignment and academic skills/research skills development. Each module in semester one has a short final, summative assignment. These summative assignments draw on a range of strategies and during the course of the year you will be assessed through literature review, construction of a critical reading log, academic poster and presentation. This aligns to the University-wide Learning Teaching and Assessment plan moving forward in terms of authentic assessment that will contribute to professional understanding and employability. The assessment of skills culminates in the longer dissertation module. At this stage in the MA, a detailed module guide will ensure that your supervisor and Personal Tutor can track and monitor your progress and provide interim feedback to support and help you.
Entry requirements
Bachelor Hons Degree 2:2 or equivalent
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this 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
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Provider information
University of Cumbria
Registered Office
Fusehill Street
Carlisle
CA1 2HH