Educational Leadership and Management MSc

University of Portsmouth

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

Careers and opportunities

You'll graduate with the skills and knowledge you need to to seek out ambitious job roles and take on new responsibilities in educational leadership and management.

This course is ideal for teachers, trainers, lecturers and instructors across the educational sector, who aspire to senior leadership and management positions. Build on your previous studies and experience to bring your skills, theories and expertise to a postgraduate level.

Designed as an industry led course, teaching staff work with and consult experts in the education sector to build a curriculum that reflects the current field, its methods and challenges. Helping you to graduate with the rich academic knowledge, industry know-how and the confidence to advance your career in education.

Graduates of this course have gone onto work in areas such as:

• School management
• Higher education institutions management
• Teacher education
• Course leading and management

During your course you'll have expert career support from your tutors and our Careers and Employability Centre – which you can access for up to 5 years after you graduate.

Course structure

This MSc will take:

• 1 year (full-time)
• 2 years (part-time)

You can expect:

• Up to 3 hours of teaching time per module each week
• Up to 10 hours of independent study per module each week

You will spend the last 3 months focusing on your dissertation or major project.