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Qualification
Postgraduate Certificate
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Location
University of Glasgow
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Study mode
Part time
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Start date
SEP
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Duration
12 months
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
Tuition fees
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University information

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University League Table
19th
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Campus address
University of Glasgow, The Fraser Building, 65 Hillhead Street, Glasgow, Glasgow, City Of, G12 8QQ, Scotland
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Subject ranking
1st out of 81
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Entry standards
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10098 98%3rd
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 54.05 81%48th
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