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Study mode

Part time

Duration

12 months

Start date

SEP-25

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

Postgraduate Certificate

Subject areas

School Administration

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

This professional programme is designed for aspiring school principals and school leaders in Scotland to enable them to attain the Standard for Headship (GTCS, 2012). Through professional pedagogies, it focuses specifically on enabling you to develop a strategic approach to educational change.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

  • Accredited by the General Teaching Council Scotland, the programme aligns with the Framework for Educational Leadership and is part of the national programme for the specialist qualification for headship in Scotland.
  • The programme is designed to enable you to develop your personal capacity and capability to lead change for improvement and work with your school and its community to realise its strategic vision.
  • You will have opportunities to engage directly with policy makers through guest lectures by expert practitioners and leading researchers.
  • There is emphasis on the interrelationship between professional and academic perspectives, practice and theory, and between the different sites of learning/practice, in order that individual professional learning is interconnected with collective school improvement.

CAREER PROSPECTS

The programme aims to ensure aspirant head teachers are supported to develop and continue to build the necessary knowledge, skills and understanding required of senior leaders. The qualification is aimed at those teachers whose next post will be that of a head teacher, likely to be within two to three years.

Modules

The focus of Course 2 is on leading a process of building a vision for school improvement through engaging others from across the school community. Models of emergent and responsive planning are explored as a means of determining and achieving short-term objectives, towards a longer term process of sustainable strategic change to address the educational issues identified in Course 1.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£3,066

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

To be confirmed

Entry requirements

To apply for this programme, you must have the following: A degree or equivalent qualification in Education or a related field; A teaching qualification and full GTCS registration. Experience in a senior leadership role; Successful outcome at interview with the local authority and university partners; A reference from your Headteacher or employer which endorses and supports your application and demonstrates that you have access to a suitable workplace environment.

University information

The University of Glasgow is one of four ancient universities in Scotland, founded back in 1451. Alumni include seven Nobel Prize winners, Scotland’s First Minister and a Prime Minister, while Albert Einstein gave a seminal lecture on the theory of relativity there in 1933. The university consists of four colleges: College of Arts College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences College of Science and Engineering College of...more

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