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  • Qualification

    Postgraduate Certificate

  • Location

    Gilmorehill (Main) Campus

  • Study mode

    Part time

  • Start date

    21-SEP-26

  • 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 PROGRAMMEAccredited 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 PROSPECTSThe 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.

Application deadline

21/08/2026

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University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

  • University League Table

    31st

  • Campus address

    Gilmorehill (Main) Campus, University Of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow, Scotland, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom

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A wide range of international scholarships are available, including Global Excellence scholarships.
Meet students from across the university with over 350 clubs and societies available – ranging from international student societies to the Baking Society.
Pre-sessional English language provision is available before starting university, with English language support options for the duration of study.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Education

    7th out of 91 1

  • Entry standards

    / Max 228
    197 86%

    3rd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    83.0 83%

    27th

    10

  • Student satisfaction

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    3.05 76%

    74th

    17

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