Key features
- Accredited and Registered
- Cutting-edge curriculum
- Flexible structure
- Online support
- Affordable and Accessible
- Internationally benchmarked
- Multicultural Faculty and support
About
Effective leaders and education managers must find new ways to address regulatory, leadership and management challenges to embrace opportunities in the educational environment. Educational complexities have coalesced to push for knowledge and skills transformation to bring about change in technology, human resources, innovation, teacher qualities and accountability initiatives.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Management is a one year specialised programme designed to meet the needs of educational managers in this climate of change. It incorporates the latest strategic thinking in educational leadership and management.
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the programme, the student should be able to:
- Apply management principles in an educational context to provide leadership
- Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the functioning of educational institutions
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the inter-relatedness of factors that impinge on the phenomena of education
- Conduct independent inquiry in a specialised field of education, training or development, and to report their findings in academically appropriate ways
- Demonstrates professional managerial competence through formalising and encouraging critical reflection on both practical experiences and engagement with theory in order to manage contextual challenges to contribute to the development of appropriate education policies
Programme structure
Duration: 1 year
Semester 1
- Contemporary Educational Management
- Educational Leadership
- Curriculum Design and Development
Semester 2
- Governance in Education
- Financial Management in Education
Electives
Choose one of the following electives:
- Research in Education
- History and Theoretical Frameworks in Education
- Comparative and International Education
Admission requirements
The minimum entry requirement is an appropriate Bachelor’s Degree or appropriate Advanced Diploma.
Application
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