Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership
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Overview
Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership
Strengthen your professional leadership practice with a Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership. The PGDipEdLd at UC is for existing teachers, middle and senior education leaders, aspiring principals, learning support professionals, and other education practitioners looking to enhance their leadership knowledge and understanding of leadership theory.
Through a combination of online and in-person study, you will examine and critique leadership and management frameworks, ethical principles, and organisational structures, enabling you to design and implement sustainable change initiatives for complex organisational challenges in education.
Become an ethical, socially just education leader with the skills to strengthen educational communities and promote equitable learning outcomes.
Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership
- Study leadership theory, mentoring and coaching practice, organisational decision-making, and change management.
- Learn to address Aotearoa New Zealand’s obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi within educational and organisational leadership contexts.
- Develop knowledge of Māori leadership models, organisational structures, tikanga and relational approaches to leadership.
- Elective courses in a variety of topics including Pacific education, structured literacy, reading development, literacy difficulties, and more.
Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership
To apply to the Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership, you will need to hold an Aotearoa New Zealand bachelor’s degree in Education or a related discipline with at least a B grade point average (or equivalent qualifications).
If English is not your first language, you are also required to meet UC's Postgraduate language requirements. See how to provide your English language evidence to UC. If you need help meeting these requirements, or would like to practise your English skills before studying, UC offers English for Academic Purposes (EAP) language programmes. You are also required to meet the language requirements set out by Matatū Aotearoa | Teaching Council of New Zealand.
For the full entry requirements, use the admission requirements checker.
How to apply
You can apply online at myUC.
See Admission and enrolment for all information on enrolling at UC.
Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership
The Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership at UC is made up of 120 points in courses, which includes three compulsory courses and one elective course chosen from a range of topics.
Beginning in February, July, or November, the Diploma will take 1 year full-time or up to 3 years part-time.
Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership
Compulsory courses
- EDME468 The Learning Leader
- EDME637 Distributing Leadership Through Coaching and Mentoring
- EDME669 Decision Making in Leadership
Elective courses
Choose 30 points from these options:
- EDME694 Research Methods in Education (30 points)
- EDME408 Understanding Emotions in Education, Leadership and Health (30 points)
- EDME420 Inclusive and Special Education (30 points)
- EDME422 Teaching and Learning in Inclusive Settings (30 points)
- EDME433 Digital and AI pedagogies for enhanced learning (30 points)
- EDME653 Meeting the needs of students with literacy difficulties (30 points)
- EDME685 Culturally Inclusive Pedagogies: Motivating Diverse Learners (30 points)
If you are interested in continuing with your postgraduate study, you can apply for entry to the Master of Educational Leadership.
Contact a Student Advisor for further information.
Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership
Completing the Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Leadership at UC will prepare you for leadership roles in the education sector, from early childhood centres to schools, tertiary institutions, and research settings.
Graduates may also seek employment in government and non-government organisations, learning support and educational development roles, or policy and professional development roles.
