Educational Leadership

Entry requirements

We require a UK Honours degree with a First or Upper Second (2.1) classification or the overseas equivalent.

When assessing your academic record we take into account the grades you have achieved and the standing of the institution where you studied your qualification.

Months of entry

September

Course content

MA Educational Leadership is the ideal programme if you are - or aspire to be - an educational leader, school-based practitioner or educational policymaker. You will be taught by internationally renowned academics in the fields of leadership, management, and school improvement, as well as senior educational experts such as headteachers and policymakers.

This range of voices - and the creative pedagogies we use - will equip you with the knowledge, skills, insights and capabilities to become an inspirational and impactful leader within Education, in any context.

Aims

• Examine current theories for examining education policy and practice from a leadership perspective.
• Develop your understanding of the key contemporary leadership issues that influence teachers' performance.
• Enable colleagues to identify issues and develop appropriate school improvement strategies.
• Consider some of the issues of equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility that enable and constrain leadership practices.
• Develop a range of transferable employability skills which integrate current research and best practice.