MSc Education Leadership and Management

Course Overview

The fast-moving policy changes and reforms in 21st-century education have created a high demand for professionals with advanced leadership and management skills. Our interdisciplinary MSc Education Leadership and Management course is designed to enable you to embrace the problematic aspects of leadership and management with confidence, understanding and insight.

This course is for aspiring and established leaders. Whether you’re already a leader-educator, or 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.

You’ll examine key developments in education policy and link these to your experience of leadership, or your experience of working under the leadership of others.

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

We’ll offer you practical skills for real-world challenges. Through our programme, you'll 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’ll also learn practical strategies and techniques for solving complex organisational and educational problems.

This course is open to

UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.

Typical International Entry Requirements

Degree classification

UK Bachelors degree - 2.2 or equivalent

Degree Subject

Any subject area with relevant experience or an education related degree with no relevant experience.

Additional Entry Requirements

Applicants with a 2:2 (or equivalent) may be considered based on relevant professional experience, and/or voluntary work. Relevant experience of working in an educational setting or education-related activity is desirable.

English Foreign Language

Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading): 

• IELTS: 6.5 overall (minimum 6.0 in all components).

We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies for a list of example qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.

Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.

 If you do not meet the English language requirements for this course, INTO UEA offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the required English skills.

Employability

Upon successful completion of the course, you'll be able to demonstrate the advanced skills essential for strategy and policy development and implementation.

Depending on your previous professional experience and career aspirations, you'll also gain knowledge, understanding and advanced problem-solving skills to succeed in a range of education-related roles. Our course is designed to open career paths in schools, the post-compulsory sector and not-for-profit organisations, as well as leadership and management research and consultancy.

The high-quality, interdisciplinary curriculum will also offer you a solid foundation for progressing to doctoral research.

Example of careers that you could enter include:

• Compulsory and post-compulsory public education sectors and local government
• Middle leadership and senior management roles in schools and colleges
• NGOs, not-for-profit and private educational development organisations
• Education policymaking in the public and private sectors, think tanks, research organisations and charities

Discover more on our Careers webpages.