Awards
Target Award
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit
Programme Offerings
Part-Time
B-JMU-FEB
Educational Aims of the Course
1. To engage with and address important and emerging leadership principles, culture and behaviours to enhance current leaders practice, create agency and encourage leaders to improve education and societal outcomes.
2. To challenge and appreciate the components of a socially just, sustainable education system.
3. To explore a range of educational leadership issues through the perspective of transformation of others.
4. To prepare senior and emerging leaders for the leadership challenges inherent in the education sector.
5. To support leading into the future, with a focus on the evolution of business complexity and challenge in the context of providing excellent education and addressing the breadth of needs in the sector.
6. To identify and align with important ethical and societal needs to maximise outcomes through applied business approaches and educational leadership development.
7. To generate well supported education leaders who share collective insights across the sector and apply new learning.
8. To engage leaders in communities of educational leadership practice, focused on adding value to society.
9. To reflect on research informed knowledge exchange to have a direct impact on the community being served.
10. To support education leaders in constructing well developed organisational strategies that balance the tensions between business imperatives and ethical education goals.
Learning Outcomes
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
The purpose of our teaching and learning approach is flexible and authentic to support and appreciate the professional commitments of our learners; authenticity will be reflected in authentic assessments that are grounded in the student's professional role, context and setting to ensure that learning is applied and reflexive. We seek to deliver innovative, transparent curricula that anticipates societal issues and the future needs of young people, employment, and education. We develop agency through our breadth of delivery where learners both collectively and independently develop. Through collaborative and practical skills and methodologies, the future workplace is the key function in our approach.
We offer dynamic and creative supported learning opportunities through:
- Blended and Agile Learning delivery
- Technology Enhanced Learning experiences
- Individual Leadership Academic Tutoring
- Expert Practitioner Support throughout our modules
- Action Learning Methodologies to support peer reflection
- Applied Learning Approaches
- Contextual Assessments that are functional and appropriate
Formative and summative assessments are integrated into the MBA programme in Educational Leadership to support the evaluation of learners' progress and provide valuable feedback.
In Year 1, learners will complete: role play, reflection, presentation, essay, report and portfolio tasks.
In Year 2, learners will complete: research poster, presentation, case study, portfolio tasks and an innovative research project.
Programme Structure
Programme Structure Description
Structure
Level 7
Entry Requirements
IELTS
RPL
Undergraduate degree
Extra Entry Requirements
As a practice-based programme in leadership there is a strong emphasis on the application of ideas developed in the context of the applicant's own school or setting. Relevant work experience must evidence that the applicant is in or has recent experience of an educational leadership post and can access a setting to undertake the innovative research project.
LJMU welcomes applications from international candidates. Most of the studying and learning will be undertaken via distance learning in your home country and there are only a small number of residential days in Liverpool required.