Educational Leadership and Management MBA

**Focus closely on your current role as a teacher or leader and boost your educational management skills to open up new career opportunities with our distance learning MBA.**<br/><br/>Our MBA Educational Leadership and Management will help you develop the skills and knowledge needed to be an exceptional leader in your field – and send a clear signal to your employer that you’re strongly motivated to succeed.<br/><br/>Our flexible, distance learning course lets you study while you work, and tailor your learning around your current role.<br/><br/>As well as honing and developing your existing skills, youll reflect on contemporary education leadership practice and theories, allowing you to push forward in a leadership or management role and instigate beneficial changes for your pupils and colleagues.<br/><br/>As an MBA Educational Leadership and Management student you’ll be able to study while working. The course is designed to be flexible so you can study when it is convenient for you and access personalised support through regular tutorial updates.<br/><br/>The assignments are all designed as ‘live briefs’, which means that you can use them as opportunities to draw on and enhance your day-to-day working practices, thinking and applying the learning from the MBA course in real-time.<br/><br/>Whether you work in the UK or overseas, are already employed in a leadership or management role, or are taking on additional responsibilities in your teaching/lecturing role, our six core modules will be relevant for your career.<br/><br/>The distance learning elements of the course are all interactive. You’ll have opportunities to take part in online discussions about key topics with fellow students and course tutors and use a broad range of learning materials including text, audio, and video as well as eBooks and eJournals. Well also help you develop your skills in accessing, producing, and making appropriate use of relevant research literature.<br/><br/>Throughout the MBA, you’ll have a high level of one-to-one support from a dedicated tutor, and access to teaching and learning methods that give you the widest possible exposure to a modern, innovative higher education experience.<br/><br/>**Careers**<br/><br/>Whether you’re a teacher or lecturer with some management responsibilities, a leader in an educational institution, or an education leader in a different sector, you can enhance your impact and improve your career opportunities with our MBA course.<br/><br/>An MBA in Educational Leadership and Management can help your career progression and will open up new opportunities in senior management, strategic leadership, directorships and consultancy.<br/><br/>If you’ve completed an undergraduate degree, this higher-level award will help you to develop a deeper knowledge of your subject. Masters study will also enhance your transferable skills such as independent and team working, verbal and written communication, critical and creative thinking, presentation skills, research and project management, and increased self-confidence.<br/><br/>This course can also be your first step towards working in research or university lecturing. When you graduate, you might choose to progress to doctoral studies, such as our School of Education PhD. Take advantage of our Alumni Scholarship and get £400 off your fees.