Master of Education in Education Leadership
Education institutions in the region are led overwhelmingly by people promoted for teaching excellence and never trained to lead, and the quality of an institution rarely rises above the quality of its leadership. This Master of Education in Education Leadership is a taught, project heavy ...
The four facts
What you actually need to compare
- Award and entry
- MEd
- A
- Duration and mode
- 12 months (2 semesters)
- Hybrid. Includes 0 months of paid, assessed cooperative education.
- Cost
- UGX 3,000,000 per year
- None laboratory classification. No laboratory premium.
- Outcome targeted
- Education leader and administrator, head teacher and principal track, education quality and improvement lead
- Reviewed by 2031. If the thesis stops holding, the programme is reviewed.
Pricing Model 5.1 · The Forward Standard
Master of Education in Education Leadership fee
UGX 3,000,000 per year
- Laboratory tier
- None
- Annual premium
- UGX 0
- Per semester
- UGX 1,500,000
- Whole programme
- UGX 3,000,000
- Approximate USD
- ≈ USD 789
What this fee includes
- Teaching, practice tutoring, assessment and competency verification
- The Amagezi platform and AI tutor around the clock
- All learning materials
- Every examination, including first resits
- Identity card, library, guild, sports and basic wellbeing
- Co-op placement matching and the Capability Passport
- Graduation and the statutory NCHE fee
- Online application
Employment thesis
What this programme is designed to produce
Forward publishes the destination of every programme before you enrol. If the thesis stops holding, the programme is reviewed and, where necessary, retired. Next review: 2031.
Roles
- Education leader and administrator
- head teacher and principal track
- education quality and improvement lead
- curriculum and academic leader
- education programme director
- institutional change lead
- education policy and planning officer
- education leadership consultant
Employer types
- Schools
- colleges and universities
- education ministries and agencies
- education networks and management organisations
- development and education programmes
- training and professional institutions
- non governmental education organisations
- quality assurance and inspection bodies
- research institutes
- the graduate's own venture, incubated through the Forward Venture Studio
Target outcomes we hold ourselves to
- This programme is built for education professionals moving into leadership and supports senior institutional roles. Progression routes include doctoral study.
Compulsory · The Forward Core
How the Core works →Every Forward programme, including this one, carries the same five cross-cutting requirements. They are graded, not optional.
- AI Fluency
- Quantitative Reasoning
- Ethics and African Context
- Human-Advantage Skills
- Enterprise
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Postgraduate programmes carry work integrated learning inside the taught structure rather than the twelve month undergraduate cooperative education placement. Read the co-op commitment
Am I eligible?
Check yourself against the published requirements
7 questions written specifically for Master of Education in Education Leadership. Every answer is checked against a requirement Forward has published, and the result tells you which page that requirement comes from. Indicative only, the admissions office decides on your full file.
What is the highest qualification you hold?
Curriculum structure
The same degree, in both pathways
Every Forward programme is published in both pathways: Path One, the term plan of two six-month terms, and Path Two, the block sequence of twelve four-week blocks. Same competencies, same assessments, same award. Toggle to see this programme in each.
Path One term plan shown
Path One · The Term Model
| Code | Course | CU | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| FDC 501 | Applied Intelligence for Professionals Both | 4 | 2-2-0 |
| FDC 502 | Research Evidence and Method Both | 4 | 2-2-0 |
| MEDL 510 | Education Leadership and Institutional Systems Both | 6 | 3-2-2 |
| MEDL 511 | Leading Learning, Curriculum and Assessment Performance | 6 | 3-2-4 |
| MEDL 512 | Education Finance and Resource Management Both | 5 | 3-2-2 |
| Code | Course | CU | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| FDC 503 | Governance, Ethics and Leadership of Intelligent Systems Both | 4 | 2-2-0 |
| MEDL 520 | Leading People, Culture and Change Performance | 5 | 2-2-4 |
| MEDL 521 | Quality, Evidence and Institutional Improvement Both | 4 | 2-2-2 |
| MEDL 522 | Leading Education in the Age of Intelligent Systems Performance | 4 | 2-2-4 |
| MEDL 523 | Education Policy, Ethics and Accountability Objective | 3 | 2-2-0 |
| MEDL 530 | Education Leadership Project Performance | 15 | 0-2-12 |
Total credit units: 60
Curriculum source
Forward University Curriculum Compendium
Assessment
Coursework + project + integrated exam
Work-integrated learning
12 months paid co-operative education
Your week at Forward
A typical week on Master of Education in Education Leadership
Path One, the Term Model: your own pace across a six-month term, one live session a week, short flexible lessons, and assessment on demand.
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Curriculum explorer
Drill into the degree, step by step
Choose a study path, then a year, then a term or block, then a course. Credit totals add up as you go, and every course shows what comes before it and what it unlocks.
Step 1, choose a year
Step 2, choose a term
SEMESTER 1 | YEAR 1 | 25 COMPETENCY UNITS
Year 1 · this step is worth 25 CU
Cumulative
25
Programme total
60
25 CU of 60 CU completed by the end of this step (42%)
Step 3, choose a course
Pick a course to see the detail
Credits, assessment, prerequisites and what each course unlocks later.
The twelve Forward capabilities
What this programme develops in you
Every Forward degree develops the same twelve cross-cutting capabilities. The profile below is the level this programme is designed to develop and verify by graduation, on the four-level scale in Part B2 of the Curriculum Compendium. Every claim above Level 2 is verified by someone other than the teaching lecturer.
- C1Intelligent Systems FluencyLevel 3 of 4, Independent
- C2Quantitative and Evidential Reasoning CriticalLevel 4 of 4, Leading
- C3Ethical and Contextual JudgementLevel 3 of 4, Independent
- C4Communication and Persuasion CriticalLevel 4 of 4, Leading
- C5Disciplinary MasteryLevel 3 of 4, Independent
- C6Technical Production and CraftLevel 3 of 4, Independent
- C7Problem Framing and Systems ThinkingLevel 4 of 4, Leading
- C8Collaboration and Multidisciplinary TeamingLevel 4 of 4, Leading
- C9Enterprise, Value and Commercial Literacy CriticalLevel 4 of 4, Leading
- C10Professional Conduct and Workplace PerformanceLevel 4 of 4, Leading
- C11Learning to Learn and Adaptive CapacityLevel 3 of 4, Independent
- C12Stewardship and Public Contribution CriticalLevel 4 of 4, Leading
Critical capabilities for this programme: Quantitative and Evidential Reasoning · Communication and Persuasion · Enterprise, Value and Commercial Literacy · Stewardship and Public Contribution. A graduate cannot pass out of this programme below the stated level on any capability marked critical.
Programme Learning Outcomes
What you will be able to do
Each outcome is assessed, and each is tagged with the Forward capabilities it is verified against.
- PLO 1Lead an education institution with evidence and a clear improvement aim.
- PLO 2Lead learning and curriculum design and its improvement.
- PLO 3Manage education finance, resources and value for money.
- PLO 4Lead people, culture and change in an institution.
- PLO 5Design and use assessment and quality systems that raise standards.
- PLO 6Lead the responsible adoption of intelligent systems in education.
- PLO 7Apply education data and evaluation to institutional decisions.
- PLO 8Communicate and C3, C defend leadership decisions to communities and authorities.
- PLO 9Deliver a major applied C6, C8 leadership project inside a real institution with a measured outcome.
- PLO 10Acquire and demonstrate C10 a new capability without formal instruction, evidenced in the Capability Passport.
Why this programme exists
Education institutions in the region are led overwhelmingly by people promoted for teaching excellence and never trained to lead, and the quality of an institution rarely rises above the quality of its leadership. This Master of Education in Education Leadership is a taught, project heavy conversion for teachers, heads and education professionals moving into leadership, built around the real work of leading an institution: evidence, people, finance, and the design of learning and its improvement in an age of intelligent systems. It terminates in a major applied leadership project inside a real institution, weighted toward a delivered improvement rather than a dissertation.
Admission requirements
A good first degree (second class or above) in education or a relevant field, or substantial education experience admitted through recognition of prior learning; plus a short reasoning and writing task scored against Capabilities C3 and C4. All applicants must demonstrate competence in English, the language of instruction, through their qualifications or an approved proficiency test under Part A. International and non standard qualifications are assessed for equivalence against the profile above under the Credential Portability provisions, so that a suitably prepared applicant may enter from anywhere in the world. Selection considers the whole application, including the structured admission task, and is conducted without discrimination under the University's admissions policy. Alternative pathways: recognition of prior learning against the admission profile under Part G, including substantial professional practice in lieu of the named first degree field. Online components require the Digital Readiness orientation under Part D6.