Master of Education (Leadership and Management)

Overview

• Ideal for educators who want to be leaders in educational settings.
• Designed to build and enhance leadership capacity in aspiring and existing leaders.
• Gain advanced knowledge in leadership and management, including leading and managing peoples, leadership and policy in action and strategic management.
• Commonwealth Supported Places available for Australian citizens and permanent visa holders, and New Zealand citizens (subject to change).

Details

Master of Education (Leadership and Management) is designed to prepare you for leadership in educational settings. The program focuses on building and enhancing leadership capacity in aspiring and existing leaders and will keep you at the forefront of ever-changing educational practice.

The four units that constitute the leadership and management area of interest complement each other by providing both solid foundational understandings about leadership that develop capacity, and skills in aspiring and existing leaders. The knowledge areas include leading and managing people; leadership concepts, theories and issues; leadership, policy and change in action; and strategic management. You will gain advanced knowledge in leadership and management in educational settings.

Throughout Australia, there has been a steady demand for postgraduate university programs to enhance leadership learning. Our Leadership and Management study area has attracted a steady flow of students over the past 10 years and is one of the most popular areas of interest in the Master of Education degree. Students in this program come from primary and secondary schools within Australia and overseas, as well as from fields such as higher education, social work and human resource development and training.

Career outcomes

The leadership and management study area will be useful for educational practitioners and other practitioners who are interested in developing their leadership capacities, knowledge and skills. Past graduates have used this study area to secure leadership positions within middle management in schools, within educational systems, and within a variety of other professional settings such as hospitals, government and community organisations.

Recommended course combinations

Students from other study areas consistently take electives from the leadership and management area of interest because of the applicability of leadership learnings to many aspects of professional work and life.

Units

In the Leadership and Management study area you are required to complete the two (2) MEd core units:

• EDN610 Professional Dialogues in Education
• EDN611 Professional Applications of Research

plus the four (4) Leadership and Management study area core units

• SPN625 Leadership Concepts, Theories and Issues
• SPN626 Leading and Managing People
• SPN645 Leadership, Policy and Change in Action
• SPN646 Strategic Management

as well as two (2) option units (a total of 96 credit points).

International students on a student visa must study in full-time and internal mode: four (4) units per semester.  International students are permitted to take a maximum of 25% (two (2) units) of their course externally.

Please find important information about the study area and unit availabilities in the 'All course structures' link below.

Entry requirements

An appropriate four (4) year Bachelor degree or equivalent at a standard acceptable to the Executive Dean

or

a three (3) year Bachelor degree or equivalent at a standard acceptable to the Executive Dean PLUS at least one year of appropriate professional or industrial experience. 

Course fees

Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. All fees are based on current fixed fee prices. We review fees annually.

Scholarships and financial support

You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.

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