Educational Leadership (Taught)

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

The course will enable you to:

• 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