Course summary
Educational Leadership and Management MA is for those looking to pursue a leadership role within an educational organisation. Warwick's Education Studies uses a client-orientated focus, with multi-pronged routes to train you for a scholarly career or research-informed professional practice. Course overview This course is designed to develop your knowledge and skills in leadership and management in an educational setting. This programme offers you a unique opportunity to customise your learning to match your professional background, needs and aspirations. Assessments are individually tailored making each topic highly relevant to your particular context and professional needs. To maximise your learning potential, you will receive individualised attention and the flexibility to select from a wide range of modules. The programme is research driven but with a strong focus on professional practice, making it suitable for establishing an academic career or pursuing middle and senior leadership roles in education organisations. At the end of the course, we anticipate that you will have developed reflective and critical capabilities, providing you with a sound basis for your next career move, alongside the necessary knowledge and skills to respond to a variety of educational leadership challenges within your organisation. Skills from this degree
- Applying knowledge and understanding of research methods in planning, undertaking and evaluating a research project
- Informed understanding of concepts and theories of leadership and management in education, and their relationship
- Understanding of strategy and strategic perspectives in education
- Human resource management in education and its links with strategy
- Identifying factors affecting learner achievement and ways to improve it
Modules
Core modules
- Leading Educational Change and Improvement (alternative online module available for part-time students if required)
- Research Methods in Education (alternative online module available for part-time students if required)
- Dissertation
Assessment method
Assessment types vary depending on modules selected but may be a mixture of assignments and oral presentations. You will also complete a dissertation based on an individual research project, with support from a research supervisor.
Entry requirements
Minimum requirements 2:2 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). English language requirements You can find out more about our English language requirements on our website. This course requires the following: - Band B - IELTS score to 7 overall, no more than two components at 6.0/6.5 & rest 7.0+ International qualifications We welcome applications from students with other internationally recognised qualifications.
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
Please visit the University of Warwick website for the tuition fees for postgraduate courses:
https://warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/funding/fees
Sponsorship information
We offer a variety of postgraduate funding options for study at the University of Warwick, from postgraduate loans, university scholarships, fee awards, to academic department bursaries. It's important that you apply for your postgraduate course first before you apply for a University of Warwick scholarship. Please visit the University's scholarship webpages.
Provider information
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL