- Locations: Durban Johannesburg - South Africa Cape Town South Africa - Polokwane East London
- Duration: 1 Year
Course details
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 [PGDip (Educational Management)] is a one year specialized program designed to meet the needs of educational managers in this climate of change. It incorporates the latest strategic thinking in educational leadership and management. The program develops communication,interpersonal and financial skills in a way that enables educators to draw from both theory and practice of management.
Upon successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Management, the student should be able to:
- Apply management principles in an educational context.
- Provide leadership in an educational context.
- 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.
- Demonstrate a sound knowledge base and critical understanding of education in general.
- Critically analyse and evaluate knowledge in educational management and to contribute to systematic and disciplined thinking about educational matters and issues.
- Conduct independent inquiry in a specialised field of education, training or development, and to report their findings in academically appropriate ways.
- Exhibit the potential to act as academic leaders and experts in the field of education, training and development; and
- Demonstrates professional managerial competence through formalising and encouraging critical reflection on both practical experiences and engagement with theory in order to manage contextual challenges such as HIV/AIDS, abuse, diversity and legal challenges, and to contribute to the development of appropriate education policies.
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About Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA)
The Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA) is a private higher education institution registered in terms of the Higher Education Act (Act 101 of 1997 as amended). It was established in 1995 as a post-apartheid empowerment institution offering affordable and accessible management education primarily to persons previously denied access to postgraduate education. MANCOSA has 100% black ownership, i.e. it is owned entirely by previously disadvantaged individuals in the South African context.In 2002, MANCOSA received accreditation for its programmes from the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC), the quality committee of the Council on Higher Education (CHE). MANCOSA is a leading provider of management programmes through supported distance learning in Southern Africa. It has in excess of 10 000 students currently enrolled in its programmes.
During 2017, MANCOSA became a proud member of Honoris United Universities. Honoris United Universities is the Pan-African private higher education network committed to preparing and educating the next generation of African leaders and professionally able to impact regionally in a globalised world. See all Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA) courses
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