Educational Administration

Goal and Objectives of the Programme

The goal of the programme is to produce graduates and educational leaders with broad-based knowledge, competencies, skills and attitude in educational leadership to meet the challenges of twenty first century education to assume educational leadership roles.

The specific objectives for the MEd programme are to:

Provide graduates with important developmental supervisory knowledge and skills to successfully pursue school-wide instructional and learning goals.
Prepare graduates to create professional learning communities in educational set ups.
Consider the general organisation and regulation of courses and research in the Institute.
Equip graduates with requisite skills to conduct research to inform educational decisions and policies.

Admission Requirements

Applicants for the MEd programme:

First degree with at least, second class lower division.
Non-researched master’s degree with CGPA of 2.5 or better (top-up to MPhil)

Target Groups

The target group for the programme includes the following:

Educational administrators
Personnel at the directorate of the Ministry of Education

Progression

A successful applicant will be offered probationary admission as Postgraduate Research Student for the first year. Students may progress to the second year (thesis phase) as MPhil/PhD students after having satisfied the following conditions:

Taken and passed all required courses including academic writing (if not already taken).
Obtained a CGPA of 2.5 or better for MPhil candidates.
Successfully defended a research proposal for the level (Master’s/Doctoral).