Course summary
If you're already in employment and looking for a qualification to enhance your professional practice, this is the course for you. The course will be delivered by a high quality team of staff, including experts in their fields of study with experience of leadership in educational settings. The MSc Educational Leadership is a part-time blended learning course, designed for professionals working in education, who are already in or want to move into leadership roles. You'll develop your understanding of leadership, the purposes which educational leadership serves, school improvement, and the international, national and local policy contexts that shape how leadership is enacted. You'll gain a thorough grounding in research methods and reasoning which will enable you to study an area of specific interest to yourself through a dissertation. The course draws on recent insights into educational leadership across the world. It focuses on leadership in a range of educational settings:
- pre-school
- school
- further education
- higher education
- the voluntary sector
- build on your existing knowledge, understanding skills
- develop insights into your own professional development and your understanding of yourself as a leader
- build understanding which will enable you to develop your leadership capacities and skills
- specialise in an area of specific interest to yourself
Modules
Year 1 Compulsory Classes: Educational Leadership for the 21st Century, Developing as a Leader of Change, Leadership in your Educational Context Year 2 Classes: Research Methods and Reasoning (you may replace Research Methods and Reasoning with the Year 3 class Strategic Leadership to complete a Postgraduate Diploma. However, you would not then be able to progress to Year 3), Option of two other modules which can be chosen from the suite of modules available that year from the MEd and will be chosen after discussion with the Course Leader. Year 3: You can choose to complete a project within your workplace to evaluate the impact of a proposed strategic change on student learning. Alternatively, you can choose to undertake a dissertation under the guidance of a supervisor, in a subject area of your choice.
Assessment method
You'll undertake formative tasks throughout the course, including maintaining a reflective journal. For most classes, assessments will consist of a written assignment (3,000 words) and a piece of reflective writing encouraging you to think about your professional learning and your understanding of yourself as a leader.
Entry requirements
A good undergraduate degree, or relevant professional qualification, and a teaching qualification (or its equivalent) or relevant experience within an educational setting.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
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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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Sponsorship information
There are several scholarship opportunities available for students applying for this course. Please see website for further details.
Provider information
University of Strathclyde
McCance Building
16 Richmond Street
Glasgow
G1 1XQ