The PGDip in Educational and Leadership Management is a core programme of study for leaders and managers in education. It is designed to meet the interests of leaders at all levels who are keen to improve their leadership and management understanding and practices.
The course aims to strengthen your leadership and management skills, and to enable you to apply theory and ideas within your workplace and utilise existing and emerging research-informed knowledge of educational leadership internationally. It will enable you to develop, broaden and deepen your critical understanding of your organisation and the environment in which you operate, manage change and promote the development of yourself, your colleagues and your organisation.
The programme is vitally relevant for middle and senior managers and leaders in schools and post-compulsory educational organisations in the UK and overseas, as well as those who advise these managers and leaders – for example local authority staff, educational consultants, and policy advisors.
Throughout the course, you will develop your skills in critical reflection, critical reading and critical writing; practice-relevant research skills; research design; literature searches; and ethics in educational research. You will carry out independent study in an area relevant to your needs and/or those of your organisation.
For the Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership and Management, you will need to successfully complete all modules and associated assignments to the value of 120 credits. There is no dissertation requirement.
Modules are taught within a block over four days. At the end of each face-to-face teaching period, students are provided opportunities for tutorials, individual study in groups and/or using other means of communication such as emails, telephone and video conference.
You can study for an MA in Educational Leadership and Management or aPostgraduate Certificate .
Each of the modules has a contact time of 30 hours. In addition, you will be expected to undertake 270 hours of private study, assignment preparation and tutorial support. The module assignments have been designed to incrementally increase your skills and criticality.
Each 30-credit module will usually be assessed by a written assignment of 5,000–6,000 words.
We welcome approaches from educational organisations who may wish to develop a bespoke cohort programme. The programme is taught by experienced specialist staff with outstanding national and international reputations and teaching is informed by current research.
A holder of an approved professional qualification equivalent to a first degree
Other equivalent qualifications will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
IELTS: 6.5 (no elements below 6.0)
TOEFL (iBT): 100 (minimum of 20 in speaking and 19 in all other elements)
IELTS and TOEFL test results must be less than 2 years old and all IELTS must be the academic version of the test
You will need to complete all of the following core modules:
Source : The University of Nottingham