School of Environment, Education and Development

Educational Leadership MA

Year of entry: 2025

Course length: 12 months Full-Time

About the course

MA Educational Leadership is the ideal programme if you are - or aspire to be - an educational leader, school-based practitioner or educational policymaker. You will be taught by internationally renowned academics in the fields of leadership, management, and school improvement, as well as senior educational experts such as headteachers and policymakers. This range of voices - and creative pedagogies - will equip you with the knowledge, skills, insights and capabilities to become an inspirational and impactful leader within Education, in any context.

Duan Sun

MA Educational Leadership student

““What I enjoy most about my degree is the fact that all of my classmates have two or three years relevant working experience. We have opportunities to communicate and discuss educational theories together, and so it’s a good opportunity for me to find out about education in other countries and learn from peers and their experiences. My time at Manchester has fostered my capability for learning. I can understand not only what I want and need to learn, but also how to learn. This learning experience gives me confidence in starting my future career."

Read more about Duan’s experience: uom.link/education-pg-duan

Daniel Monaghan

MA Educational Leadership

Daniel Monaghan graduated from MA Educational Leadership in 2013 and has had a varied and exciting career since. He’s gone from teaching in inner-city schools to senior leadership development roles at high profile organisations like Teach First and The Hut Group.

He now runs his own leadership development business, alongside training as a forester, with the aim of working as a forest school teacher, inspiring children through providing them access to nature.

Read Daniel’s story: uom.link/education-pg-daniel