- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 1 Year
Course details
postgraduate diploma is designed to prepare education professionals for managerial roles within the education sector. The programme includes study of the education policy environment, the legal and social context, the principles of leadership in education, and the culture of schools. The course provides participants with an opportunity to develop their insights into leadership in education, and to undertake a particular practical project related to their own work. A wide variety of methodologies – lectures, seminars and workshops are used throughout with a selection of key guest speakers from an international and national context presenting in the areas of law, diversity, special educational needs, leadership development and other relevant themes.
The course is designed particularly for leaders in Irish primary and second level schools, and is for many teachers an important step in the path towards promotion to management positions.
The course is designed to fit the schedule of teachers. Numbers admitted to this course are limited so as to allow for interactive engagement by participants.
Entry Requirements
This course is aimed at professionals working within the education sector who are preparing to work in, or already hold, management positions. Applicants are required to have a degree approved by the Senate of the University and be qualified teachers with appropriate work experience.
Module
Year 1
- ACCREDITATION FOR PRIOR LEARNING
- SCHOOL RELATED PROJECT
- RESPONDING TO YOUNG PEOPLE'S RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES
- THE EXERCISE OF MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION WITHIN THE SCHOOL
- EDUCATION & THE LAW/ DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
- REFORM AND RENEWAL: EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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