Education Leadership and Management MA

This is a programme for professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of the theory and practice of leadership and management in education. Students will use the knowledge and skills gained to improve their own practice across the whole range of educational institutions and related organisations.

While keeping a concern for people and human flourishing at its forefront, the course will strengthen your understanding of advanced scholarship in educational leadership and management. You will learn how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge. Using this approach, you will be able to critically examine the organisations and systems in which you work, and how they achieve outcomes for stakeholders.

This course will encourage you to specialise in your particular areas of interest, reflecting your professional role and future career goals in education leadership and management.

Modules are normally taught at early evening sessions. Full time students usually attend on three and four days a week. Part time students in full time employment usually take three years to complete the full MA and they normally attend one evening in the autumn semester and two in the spring/summer semester.

The programme provides opportunities to engage with current research covering a broad range of issues and recent thinking, and is informed by active research and scholarship in the development of educational leadership and management theory and practice.

The University of Roehampton’s School of Education undertakes leading research, and is committed to working in partnership with people, families and communities. The School focuses on developing students' professionalism and a commitment to social justice. This programme has an international profile and brings together students at postgraduate level from around the world.