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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 that provides you flexibility through short developmental opportunities, achieving a qualification in a time frame that suits you.
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Undergraduate degree or equivalent, in any discipline. Plus six months of professional experience in developing other people.
Full requirementsTaught route: up to 30 months (part-time online)
Micro-credential route: up to 5 years (part-time online)
Enhance your career aspirations and gain a broader understanding of Higher Education.
The course will enable you to:
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.
Taught route:
Micro-credential route:
Taught route:
Two compulsory modules:
Micro-credential route:
Six 10 credit micro-credential sessions:
Taught route:
Two compulsory modules:
Micro-credential route:
Six 10 credit micro-credential sessions:
Taught route:
One compulsory modules:
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:
Micro-credentials:
For those students completing the full Master's course, assessment methods also include:
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.
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
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.
We have students from over 120 different countries throughout our campuses, with a dedicated team to help international students.