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Educational Leadership and Management PGCert

University of Portsmouth

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Course options

  • Qualification

    Postgraduate Certificate - PgCert

  • Location

    Portsmouth Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    12-JAN-26

  • Duration

    6 Months

Course summary

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.

Youll 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.

Course highlights

  • 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
  • Choose between a January or September start.

Careers this postgraduate degree prepares you for

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.

Tuition fees

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(International fees)

£ 995month

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

University of Portsmouth

University of Portsmouth

  • University League Table

    49th

  • Campus address

    University of Portsmouth, University House, Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth, Portsmouth, PO1 2UP, England

Over 5,700 of the university's 24,000 students come from 150 countries around the world.
The University of Portsmouth Global team is dedicated to supporting international students from enquiry, through application and arrival, to graduation.
Facilities at the award-winning Ravelin sports centre include an 8-lane swimming pool, 175-station gym, climbing wall and ski simulator.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    49th out of 122 6

  • Entry standards

    / Max 221
    126 57%

    53rd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    74.0 74%

    42nd

    1
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.02 76%

    76th

    45

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