The University of Manchester MA programme 'Educational Leadership in Practice' wins Teaching Excellence Award

By Dr Paul Armstrong, Programme Director, The University of Manchester

The University of Manchester Master programme ‘Educational Leadership in Practice’ (ELIP) is to receive the University’s highest award for teaching quality, the Teaching Excellence Award. ELIP is a course for experienced education professionals who wish to extend their learning and gain new insights into leadership for their professional development.

More than 200 students have registered for the programme in the three years since it began, taking the opportunity to study at a prestigious UK university. The University of Manchester is in the top 30 of world universities (QS Rankings) and in the top 10 (number 1 in the UK) for social and environmental impact. Combining remote learning through digital platforms with face-to-face teaching in the University of Manchester’s global centres in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Dubai, ELIP currently recruits students from more than 20 countries. They work in every phase of education from kindergarten to university. Alongside their academic studies, students value ELIP’s positive impact on their careers and CVs, as they tackle the practical challenges of educational leadership, including issues of equality, diversity and social responsibility. The phrase in the title – ‘in practice’ – is key to ELIP’s appeal to educational leaders. The programme helps them to shape their leadership journey and advance their career, both as working professionals in their own country and as part of the global educational community.

Professor Judy Williams, Director of the Institute of Teaching and Learning at the University of Manchester, commented: ‘The ELIP team has demonstrated a creative and effective approach to providing post-professional qualifications to colleagues in international centres, which in turns improves teaching quality for their students. This contributes to the University’s strategic ambitions in transnational and flexible provision, whilst also providing advice to other programme teams’. Responding to the news, Dr Paul Armstrong, MA ELIP Programme Director, thanked all those who had contributed to the achievement. ‘This award not only recognises the quality of our academic staff’, said Paul. ‘The success of the programme is also thanks to the energy and professional commitment of our colleagues in the University’s global centres in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Dubai. This is a true transnational team effort that will continue to support the learning and professional development of educators in all phases of education’.

The Teaching Excellence Award will be presented to the ELIP team at a ceremony in Manchester in September 2023.

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