Master of Arts in Educational Leadership and Management

MQF Level

Duration and Credits

6 Semesters

90 ECTS

Mode of Study

Part-time Evening

This masters鈥� course is designed to confront the problems of leadership in the educational setting. It will focus on the development of managerially-oriented competences and leadership development. The aim of the course is to encourage you to reflect analytically and constructively on the nature of your own current experiences at whatever level you are currently working in. The programme presents an intellectually challenging, developmental opportunity if you aspire to bring leadership to senior level educational administration positions in schools, post-secondary institutions and Directorate level. The programme is designed to provide the knowledge base that will equip you to harness human and other resources necessary to assure highly effective educational institutions. It is organized round what educational leaders need to know and be able to do in order both to understand societal needs and demands regarding education, and to be able to create transformative change that is responsive to societal requirements.

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Applicants must be in possession of:

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a degree in Education with at least Third Class Honours from this University or a degree from another university recognized as equivalent for the purpose, together with a minimum of five years鈥� teaching experience, or
any other degree with at least Third Class Honours or Category III from this University or a degree from another university recognized as equivalent for the purpose together with a recognized teaching or education qualification and a minimum of five years鈥� teaching experience, or
a Master鈥檚 degree that qualified applicants for a Teacher鈥檚 Warrant, together with a minimum of five year鈥檚 teaching experience, or
any other recognised teaching qualification together with at least five years鈥� teaching experience.

Applicants in possession of the Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership may be allowed to join Part Two of the Course, if they have completed successfully the Postgraduate Diploma with a minimum average mark of 65%.

The maximum number of students that can be admitted into the course is 24 students.

If the number of applicants exceeds the number of available places, applicants shall be invited for an interview. The criteria for the selection process are:

qualifications as identified in the above paragraphs: 20%
professional aptitude and disposition: 20%
performance during the interview: 20% and
professional development profile: 40%

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You can submit your application online. The deadlines for submission of applications vary according to the intake and courses. We encourage all international applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible. This is especially important if you require a visa to travel and eventually stay in Malta.

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After you receive an offer from us, our International Office will assist you with visas, accommodation and other related issues.

At the beginning of the course, students are required to choose one of the two available Streams:
Stream A: Professional Development
Stream B: Leadership


Semester 1

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

EDU5970	Fundamentals of Educational Research	5 ECTS
LLI5200	Leadership Coaching	5 ECTS
LLI5202	Professional Development Models	5 ECTS


Semester 2

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

EDU5971	Applied Educational Research Methods	5 ECTS
LLI5203	Leadership and Management Issues for School Improvement	5 ECTS

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) Students are required to register for one of the following study-units:

LLI5024	Leadership in a Multicultural Context	5 ECTS
RSE5001	A Whole School Approach to Social and Emotional Learning	5 ECTS

Students must register for compulsory study-units according to their chosen stream as well as 5 ECTS credits in elective study-unit to a total of 30 ECTS credits.


Semester 1

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

LLI5205	Teaching, Learning and Assessment	5 ECTS

Stream A: Professional Development

EDU5955	Nurturing Professional Learning Communities in Maltese Schools	5 ECTS
LLI5206	Leading Lesson Study	5 ECTS

Stream B: Leadership

EDU5900	Internal and External Review	5 ECTS
LLI5208	Studies in Educational Management and Leadership	5 ECTS


Semester 2

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

LLI5201	Building Effective Working Relationships	5 ECTS
LLI5210	Study Visit	5 ECTS

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) Students are required to register for one of the following study-units:

LLI5022	Digital Mediated Leadership: Implications of School Management in Age of Digital Pervasiveness	5 ECTS
LLI5023	Educating School Leaders for the Internet	5 ECTS


Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2)

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

LLI5211	Research Project for Educational Leadership and Management	30 ECTS

This programme of study is governed by the General Regulations for University Postgraduate Awards, 2021 and by the Bye-Laws for the award of Master of Arts in Educational Leadership - M.A. - under the auspices of the Faculty of Education.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

describe, investigate and apply models of strategic leadership and decision making
engage in strategic leadership and strategic direction
identify and examine the key characteristics of school effectiveness
synthesise the knowledge about school improvement as a strategy for educational change
design school improvement strategies
implement curriculum design and development and implementation initiatives.

Non EU Applicants:

Total Tuition Fees: Eur 10,800
Yr 1: Eur 5,400 - Yr 2: Eur 5,400 - Yr 3: NIL

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This programme is ideal if you wish to engage in leadership positions both within schools and in other levels, including the Education Directorates, further and higher education institutions. Candidates who have followed this programme have taken on leadership positions in Malta and have also been accepted for doctoral studies both locally and abroad, while some have also had the opportunity of being awarded a scholarship.

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