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MA Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership*
Enhance your educational practice and self-assess your skills and performance within your professional context with our MA Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership. The programme is rooted in professional experience and covers a wide range of learning, teaching and assessment methods, materials and technologies. We’ve designed this online, part-time course to fit around existing work and teaching commitments, particularly for those working in higher and further education, training, development or administration. You can also choose to study this course as a one-year Postgraduate Certificate or two-year Postgraduate Diploma, either through the traditional taught route or a micro-credential route (available from March 2023) that provides you flexibility through short developmental opportunities, achieving a qualification in a time frame that suits you.
*Subject to approval
Key Facts
Entry requirements
Undergraduate degree or equivalent, in any discipline. Plus a minimum of six months of professional experience in undertaking administrative duties, managing a service or leading a project or group of inidividuals in their daily Higher Education activities.
Full requirementsDuration
Taught route: up to 30 months (part-time online)
Micro-credential route: up to 5 years (part-time online)
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Course Details
Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership
Enhance your career aspirations and gain a broader understanding of Higher Education.
The course will enable you to:
- Develop your professional capacity as reflective practitioners, enabling you to self-assess your skills and performance within your professional context.
- Gain a critical understanding of the current issues within the Higher Education sector.
- Acquire professional skills at three different levels including self, organisation and others.
- Develop an understanding of leadership and management within Higher Education, and associated opportunities for career progression.
- Enhance your skills and knowhow to develop efficient processes to support students in their Higher Education studies.
You’ll be provided with all learning materials, including guidance for each module, eBook core texts, podcasts, presentations, articles to read, a discussion board and a wiki.
We also offer the MA Education which is a Master's degree designed to develop the skills and abilities to enhance your educational practice and effectively support students.
Course Structure
Taught route:
- The MA Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership is part-time online over 30 months. (Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 below.)
- The PGCert Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership is part-time online over 1 year. (Year 1 below.)
- The PGDip Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership is part-time online over 2 years. (Year 1 and Year 2 below.)
Micro-credential route (available from March 2023):
- The MA Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership is part-time online up to a maximum of 5 years.
- The PGCert Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership is part-time online up to a maximum of 2 years.
- The PGDip Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership is part-time online up to a maximum of 4 years.
Year 1
Taught route:
Two compulsory modules:
- Higher Education in Context (30 credits)
- Professional Practice in Higher Education (30 credits)
Micro-credential route:
Six 10 credit micro-credential sessions:
- Emerging Issues in the UK Higher Education Context
- Regulations, Governance and Legislation
- Widening Participation Agendas/Strategies in UK Higher Education
- Managing Self and Personal Skills
- Embracing change: Developing Self and Others, Achieving Results
- Engaging With the Wider Context: Working together, Using Resources Effectively and Finding Solutions
Year 2
Taught route:
Two compulsory modules:
- Strategy to Practice (30 credits)
- Managing and Leading People & Change in Higher Education (30 credits)
Micro-credential route:
Six 10 credit micro-credential sessions:
- Organisational Strategy
- Inclusive Practices within Managed Services
- Leading People
- Changing Organisation Culture to a Climate
- Managing Individual & Organisational Performance
- Systems and Design Thinking to Influence People and Change
Year 3
Taught route:
One compulsory modules:
- The Management Project (60 credits)
Course Start Dates
September 2022
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PGCert Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership
- Part-time: Online
March 2023
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PGCert Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership
- Part-time: Online
September 2023
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PGCert Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership
- Part-time: Online
open daysUpcoming Dates
Jul 6th
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Jul 6th
Online Campus Information Forum, Undergraduate Courses (Virtual Event)
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Jul 6th
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Course Information
To get a full picture of how you can fit these part-time, online courses around your existing commitments, take a look at our course dates.
Throughout this programme, a variety of assessments are used.
Taught modules:
- Assessment of taught modules consists of a written submissions of 3,000 words (60% weighting), and oral presentations or poster presentations of 2,000 words equivalent (40% weighting).
Micro-credentials:
- Assessment of taught elements on the micro-credentials route consists of a written submission of 1,000 words (60% weighting) and a 15 minute oral presentation or poster presentation of 650 words equivalent (40%).
For those students completing the full Master's course, assessment methods also include:
- 13,000 word Management Project
- 2,000 oral presentation
Taught route:
The course consists of 4 x 30 credit modules and a 60 credit project that run sequentially across three academic years
Micro-credential route:
You can select sessions from a roll-on roll-off programme where repeated debates, recordings and asynchronous activities occur with 10 credit micro-credentials.
Fees and Applying
Applications for this course are now open.
Apply for the MA, PGDip or PGCert Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership directly with the University.
Course fees
- PGCert Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership: £4,000
- PGDip Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership: £8,000
- MA Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership: £12,000
By studying a Master's degree you could be eligible for a Student Loans Company Postgraduate Loan of up to £11,570.
See full details of course fees and payment structures on the fees and funding page.
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