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MSc - Master of Science
University of Portsmouth - Portsmouth Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
1 Year
If you're currently working, or aspire to work, in an education-connected role and want a qualification that demonstrates your leadership and management development, our MSc in Educational Leadership and Management is designed for you. You'll work collaboratively with fellow students, teaching staff, and industry experts from educational institutions as you learn how to channel your passion for education into positive change across the sector. Through critical thinking and practical exploration, you’ll tackle common challenges such as time management and explore ways to innovate and improve practice. You’ll be encouraged to critique how the education sector operates and prepare yourself to take decisive action as a confident educational leader. You’ll gain the skills to respond to key issues in education, including accessibility and classroom management, and to design and implement new approaches to teaching and learning. If you're more interested in the theoretical perspectives that underpin education in general, please take a look at our MA Education Studies course.
The learning outcomes of this module are: Plan, execute and present a substantial dissertation/practitioner based enquiry project according to the specification provided. Justify, deploy and critically evaluate advanced techniques of analysis and enquiry within an ethical framework. Systematically interpret complex issues from literature, current research and other data and communicate conclusions coherently and appropriately for either the academic or workplace and professional community. Review and identify the potential for new hypotheses and/or insights/and/or practices and ongoing study and research. Critically reflect upon the development of their personal and professional development.
The learning outcomes of this module are: Analyse and assess human resource theory in educational settings. Discuss and critically reflect on different human resource management concepts. Examine and evaluate the human resource management of an education institution in relation to policy and practice. Demonstrate coaching techniques and critically consider the effectiveness of the strategies used. Critically reflect on their own human resource management behaviours.
The learning outcomes of this module are: Contextualise policy change in all levels of education from an institutional, local, national and global perspective. Demonstrate an understanding of how policies are made, who makes them and their impact on organisations. Identify the key stages in the strategic management process and concepts, and some of the techniques used in the different stages. Critically consider appropriate management and leadership styles, particularly in the motivation and development of staff. Appraise relevant, current principles of quality monitoring and measurements, and their impact on stakeholders within education. Critically analyse the methods of evaluation currently used in educational organisations and debate their prominence in positively influencing institutional improvements.
The learning outcomes of this module are: Critically evaluate the major approaches to educational research. Identify and critically discuss the strengths and weaknesses of research designs for educational research problems. Appraise and plan appropriately, a range of quantitative and/or qualitative methods in educational research. Analyse and draw appropriate inferences from educational research data. Prepare a coherent research proposal
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