The programme is designed to give you critical insight into the changing field of higher education, reflecting on important debates in the field. The programme encourages you to explore, share and challenge existing knowledge and experience by engaging with different ideas, concepts, and values. You will examine higher education policy and practices in relation to your own professional experience. The programme will develop your understanding of conceptual and analytical frameworks in professional practices and processes, increasing your knowledge, skills and confidence to operate effectively and creatively in diverse institutions in higher education. Graduates of this programme are currently working across a broad range of areas in the higher education sector in the UK and internationally, for example in university governance and quality assurance. Other examples are jobs as a government policy adviser for education, university lecturer, academic standards and quality officer, careers and professional development consultant, learning, teaching and quality manager, and qualifications manager and students’ union officer. Some have gone on to doctoral studies in the field of higher education at the Institute of Education and other universities. The programme is available part-time or flexible/modular to enable those working in Higher Education in London to maintain their professional role while completing their studies in evening classes.