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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 that provides you flexibility through short developmental opportunities, achieving a qualification in a time frame that suits you.

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Key Facts

Entry requirements

Undergraduate degree or equivalent, in any discipline. Plus six months of professional experience in developing other people.

Full requirements

Duration

Taught route: up to 30 months (part-time online)

Micro-credential route: up to 5 years (part-time online)

Next start date

September 2022

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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:

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.

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

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

Taught route:

One compulsory modules:

The Management Project (60 credits)

Course Start Dates

PGCert Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership
- Part-time: Online

PGCert Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership
- Part-time: Online

PGCert Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership
- Part-time: Online

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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.

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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.