MA Educational Leadership at Manchester Metropolitan University

Programme overview

Be empowered in your educational leadership journey with a course that supports your growth, challenges your thinking, and enhances your impact. At Manchester Met, our MA in Educational Leadership offers a rich blend of theory, research and practice that helps you to develop the confidence and clarity to lead effectively in diverse educational settings. You’ll explore leadership through the lens of personal and professional values, examining how policy, organisational culture and wider social influences shape educational practice.

Faculty: Faculty of Health and Education | Department: School of Education | Duration: 1 year full-time (on campus); 2 years part-time (blended learning) | Study mode: full-time, part-time | Intake: September 2027 | Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Whether you take our part-time or full-time course, the MA Educational Leadership consists of 180 credits, including four taught modules and a 60-credit dissertation. Information about each module can be found below. Modules core: Key Discourses in Educational Leadership, Researching Educational Leadership, Thinking with Theory, Policy, Politics and Practice in Education, Dissertation.

Career pathways

Our broad and reflective course aims to progress your career in education and enhance your academic skills for further research ventures. Whilst our masters programmes do not qualify you to teach, our suite of masters courses are designed to help you enhance current practice, raise professional and academic confidence and secure positions in the field of education, leadership, consultancy or research scholarships.

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Application information

Entry requirements

You must have a relevant first degree, postgraduate diploma or professional qualification recognised as equivalent to an undergraduate UK honours degree of at least a 2:2. Other qualifications or experience may be considered. Advanced standing. If you’ve completed a PGCE within the last five years, you can normally join the course with advanced standing. This means you’ll put 60 credits from your PGCE towards your masters and complete less units to achieve your MA. Usually, this means you’ll complete just two core units before progressing to your dissertation. With the agreement of your programme leader, other relevant and recent level seven qualifications may also permit advanced standing. If you do not have a recent level seven qualification, you may be eligible to claim for recognition of prior experiential learning (e.g. relevant work experience). Further advice and guidance on this will be available after you enrol. English language. Applicants whose first language is not English must have IELTS with an overall score of 6.5 with no less than 5.5 in any category, or an equivalent accepted English qualification.

Intake: September 2027

Duration: 1 year full-time (on campus); 2 years part-time (blended learning)

Apply through the official page: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/course/ma-educational-leadership#how-to-apply

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