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

• 6 months (full-time)

• 1 year (part-time)

• Up to 3 hours of teaching time per module each week

• Up to 10 hours of independent study per module each week