This program is designed for education professionals who wish to create a superior educational environment. It will provide you with the knowledge and skills to enable you to fulfill your potential as a strong academic leader, show you how leadership and learning are connected and enable you to reflect upon current practice in your organization and set a strategy for change.
You will gain a deeper understanding of how organizational behavior and leadership impact educational institutions, analyze education-related policies and the factors that affect their implementation in an educational context and design professional development programs in learning and teaching.
Throughout the program you will be supported in developing a flexible set of professional inquiry skills to inform both administrative and academic practices relevant to your work setting. You will be prepared to produce action research and initiatives aimed at advancements in this dynamic field of learning and education and driving positive change.
Our unique six term structure offers you ultimate flexibility in terms of start date and study schedule and means you can complete the program in one year. This also allows you to better manage your workload as you take only two courses per term delivered in the evenings and weekends. If professional or personal commitments dictate that you need to miss a term, it is easy to catch up. Ours is the only such program in the UAE that offers such flexibility.
Your investment in this program can be recouped in as little as 10 months as the qualification is your stepping stone to immediate promotion and career advancement.
This program prepares graduates to become education leaders in six critical areas: strategy, instruction, organization, community, ethics and culture. Management positions include Assistant Principal and Principal positions, as well as senior administrator and instructional roles. Graduates find this respected qualification useful in gaining promotions and developing career pathways in the educational field.
The acquisition of a master’s degree demonstrates a high level of knowledge in your chosen field. You may use it to enhance your employability, as preparation for further academic research or as a means of professional training.
With the world of business and government facing change on an unprecedented scale both regionally and globally, it is more important than ever for organizations to be flexible and adapt quickly to these changes – and this requires strong and strategic leadership.
Focusing on leadership, strategy, change management, organizational behaviour and research skills this program, unique in the region, is specifically designed for experienced, senior, high-calibre professionals and executives. It will develop leaders able to influence sustainable organizational transformation in the UAE, the region and globally.
By joining this executive education program, you can expect to strengthen your leadership skills, sharpen your strategic thinking and become inspired to lead high-performing teams and achieve your leadership ambitions. With an emphasis on the practitioner perspective, you will focus on real-life challenges drawn from your own professional experience, addressing organizational issues in a sustainable and cross-cultural context which will help raise your leadership profile within your organization.
A powerful component of this program is the Contemporary Issues in Leadership module. This elective brings a further practical dimension to the program through lectures and discussions with influential business and political leaders during a one-week overseas field trip. The aim is to expose you to the challenges faced by international leaders and enable you to draw parallels to your own organization’s issues.
Italy is the destination for our 2018 trip. Students will meet with a senior figure to discuss relations between the Vatican and the Muslim world, the Chief Human Resources Officer of the World Economic Forum, the Chief International Relations Officer for Milan Expo 2015, senior diplomats and other leading figures.
The program has a Fall intake for Abu Dhabi and Spring intake for Dubai.
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