Department Education Studies

Level Taught Postgraduate Level

Module leader Dr Justine Mercer

Credit value 30

Module duration 10 weeks

Assessment 100% coursework

Study location University of Warwick main campus, Coventry

Introduction

This module addresses themes in educational leadership and management and aims to develop your confidence and effectiveness in the area. In particular, you will focus on the development and implementation of policy, scrutinising and progressing your own capacity to lead and manage strategically, including how to deploy resources effectively and efficiently..

Principal Module Aims and Outcomes

To contribute to an understanding of relevant policy contexts, and to develop participants’ capacity to lead and manage strategically and deploy resources effectively and efficiently.

Syllabus

• This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.

  • Needs analysis; policy contexts; policy-making as a process; policy analysis.
  • Policy, strategy, and policies; levels of strategy; models for strategic management and strategic planning; strategy and development planning.
  • Policy analysis and strategic analysis for participants’ work contexts: practical activity.
  • Strategic choices for participants’ work contexts: practical activity.
  • Strategic implementation; linking goals and resources; effectiveness, efficiency, economy
    and equity.
  • Site-based management and its implications for educational quality in different contexts.
  • The resource management cycle, management control.
  • Management of premises, learning resources, and time.

Study Time

Type	Required
Lectures	10 sessions of 1 hours (3%)
Seminars	10 sessions of 2 hour (7%)
Private study	170 hours (57%)
Total	300 hours

Assessment

Assessment

	Weighting
Essay	100%

Module Information

This is an optional module for MA Education, MA Childhood in Society, MA Drama and Theatre Education, MA Educational Innovation, MA Educational Leadership and Management, MA Islamic Education: Theory and Practice, MA Global Education and International Development and MA Psychology and Education.