This course is for you if you are a current education and training practitioner looking to continue your professional development and increase your career options. This flexible course will give you the further qualification needed to support you in your career development as a leader within your organisation. This challenging postgraduate course will give you the opportunity to continue your professional development while focusing upon a key aspect of the education system which you will be able to tailor to your own practice. Taught by qualified practitioners, and with the opportunity to collaborate with peers from the sector, you will be able to create a body of new and emerging knowledge. This will inform and develop a wide range of educational sectors, such as further and higher education as well as schools. Research supported by critical enquiry and discourse will extend, develop and enhance your ability to evaluate and judge the underlying assumptions surrounding educational policy and practice. You will graduate with the knowledge and confidence to initiate and sustain change, both in your own practice and within your professional context. The students on this course are all existing education and training practitioners working in further or higher education and training organisations. The MA provides the further qualification needed to support you in your career development as a leader or manager within your organisation, with many graduates moving up into enhanced roles thanks to the new opportunities this postgraduate qualification provides. Designed to appeal to a wide range of professionals in education, you will leave the course confident in your knowledge and abilities, empowered to make change in your own organisation and ready to take the next step in your career.