MSc Education Leadership and Management

The fast-moving policy changes and reforms in 21st century education create a high demand for professionals with advanced leadership and management skills.

Whether you’re a leader-educator, you aspire to a leadership role, or you’re a graduate interested in UK and global education policy, our MSc course is designed to enhance your professional development and career prospects across both the public and private sectors.

Our programme is informed by a range of academic disciplines relating to education leadership, management and administration, public policy analysis and complexity thinking.

Through it, you will develop qualities, competencies and skills essential for success as a leader or manager in education, such as advanced people skills and critical insight, as well as cutting-edge knowledge of educational research. You will also learn practical strategies and techniques for solving complex organisational and educational problems.

OVERVIEW

Our interdisciplinary MSc course has been designed to enable you to embrace the problematic aspects of leadership and management with confidence, understanding and insight. What’s more, our high-quality curriculum will support you in developing an expansive view of leadership and management in the context of national and international political and economic structures.

You will examine international developments in education policy, and link these to your experience of leadership or your experience of working under the leadership of others. You will also explore groundbreaking insights into education reform developed through the cutting-edge approach of complexity thinking.