Education - School Leadership - Master of Education

Early application is advised as places may fill before the deadline. 

Build on your expertise to equip yourself with an advanced and integrated understanding of school leadership with UL’s part-time, one-year Master of Education in School Leadership. 

Aimed at students who have completed a level 9 Postgraduate Diploma in School Leadership, a primary goal of the programme is to provide aspiring and established leaders with a research informed perspective of leading a learning organisation. 

The programme explores the impact of educational leadership, organisational developments, policy enactment and the contextual subtleties within the Irish system in the work of educational leaders. 

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During this programme, you will 

• Acquire a clear understanding of the complexity of school leadership.
• Develop an advanced and integrated practical and theoretical understanding of school leadership.
• Design and conduct a social scientific inquiry into an aspect of school leadership.
• Develop cognitive and technical research skills and apply them to research in school leadership.