Description
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Bachelor of Education in Leadership & Management
The programme focuses on the identified needs to prepare educational leaders and administrators for educational institutions. Over the years and as a result of recent global developments in the area of educational management, the programme has ventured into new approaches to training school leaders to broaden its scope beyond training leaders and managers primarily for basic education. Specifically, the new approaches bring in educational concepts such as financial management, education data management, education and the law, education leadership for sustainable development.
The BLME programme adopts an outcomes based approach to ensure that learners engage in practical learning experiences in the field of educational leadership and management. In line with this approach, the learning assessment practice is an outcome based, that is, assessing learners’ outputs or end products. The specific aims of the programme are therefore to:
- Develop the necessary and well-grounded entrepreneurial educational managers and leaders; policy analysts, evaluators and implementers.
- Develop in candidates, robust competencies and skills in governance and legal aspects as pertains to education system
- Build a sound knowledge base on educational leadership that emphasizes integration of skills, attitudes, and experiential learning through collaborating with stakeholders.
- Develop professionals who can conduct systematic inquiries in educational settings.
- Build human resource capacity in education leadership and management for the 21st Century and beyond.
Entry Requirement for Diploma and Under graduate Degrees
Minimum entry requirements are (5) “O” level credit or better and must include English
language, any science and Mathematics in some programs.
