Online - MA Education Leadership and Management

The 100% online MA Education Leadership and Management from Keele University is an innovative master’s degree that has been designed to develop educational leaders for public, private and not-for-profit organisations by providing them with the knowledge, skills and behaviours to lead educational developments in the modern world.The programme equips educators for progression in and promotion to careers such as school headships, heads of divisions, subject leaders, peer-mentors, policy developers, curriculum advisors, as well as business development directors and project managers. Our education graduates have gone on to diverse careers in educational settings as well as in politics, the civil service, policy think tanks, business, national and international NGOs, local authority and creative industries, both in the UK and internationally.The online MA Education Leadership and Management is a bespoke master’s course that has been designed to be compatible with the considerable time pressures of busy professional practice combined with family commitments. What sets this master’s degree apart is the flexible course structure and delivery that enables you to access course content on demand and study at the times that are convenient to you, in the locations that work for you.Your education studies are part-time, allowing you to continue working full-time and apply what you learn to your current role whilst continuing to earn and boosting your employability. With six starts a year, you can begin academic study within weeks.There is no need to ever visit campus for face-to-face sessions or press the pause button on your current career, because your education studies are part-time, allowing you to continue working full-time and apply what you learn to your current role whilst continuing to earn and boosting your employability. With six starts a year, you aren’t tied to the traditional academic year and can begin within weeks. The entirely online modality of this postgraduate degree has been specifically incepted to ensure that students across the UK and around the world are able to study it without needing to relocate.Keele University has developed a specially designed online learning environment within which you will interact with module tutors and will collaborate with and learn from fellow postgraduate students from around the world, in group learning activities and discussion groups via online forums. This provides you with a rich learning experience, the opportunity to learn from peers of diverse backgrounds and an invaluable means of expanding your global professional network.What you will learnThe online MA International Education Leadership and Management draws on educational research and develops a critical understanding and theoretical perspectives on a broad range of matters related to educational leadership and management. It equips you to demonstrate to employers a level of critical and intellectual rigour that can place you at the forefront of key educational leadership and management careers across sectors and around the world. It encourages professional development and enables you to reflect critically on aspects of your own professional experience as a leader or manager and on the practice of others.On this master’s programme, you will learn how to address the needs of executives and managers in today’s dynamic field of education by focusing on strategic leadership in the context of complexity and change, as well as organisational management with respect to working together in an organisation, business ethics and the identification, mitigation and management of organisational risk and sustainability.

A minimum of 2:2 undergraduate degree or a UK Master’s degree (or international equivalent). Or A third-class honours degree or an ordinary degree (without honours) or UK equivalent professional qualification with a minimum of two years’ appropriate work experience. Or Applicants who do not hold a recognised degree will be asked to provide evidence which demonstrates a minimum of three years’ relevant experience in education. This can include a wide range of educational experiences, ranging from teaching practice, educational development, educational consultancy and advising, and a range of positions in educational organisations other than schools, universities and further education colleges, such as recruitment agencies, companies specialising in the analysis of educational institutions, government organisations, local councils, charities and NGOs/ INGOs. The evidence will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.