School Business Leadership (Top-Up) BA (Hons)

The modules enable students to work autonomously on developing and implementing a project derived from a workplace setting. Students will review a particular area of need and provide guidance and support to enable the successful implementation of the project, documenting each stage of the project, from planning to evaluation.

Topics could include Marketing, Project Management, Finance, Procurement, Change Management, People Management, and Leadership.

This module focuses on key aspects of leading and managing organisations. It includes areas such as organisational structures , supervision and management of staff and volunteers; staff development; time management; support networks; management committees (accountability, minutes/reports); inter-agency working (Education, Health, and Social Care); as well as leading SEND and Safeguarding provision, and, any current policy relevant at the time of delivery. 

• Political ideologies and their importance in the development of education policy.
• The development of education policy. Particular analysis of Conservative administrations of the 1980s and 1990s, and the Labour administration of the 1997-2010, and the present Coalition administration.
• Analysis of policy development in different sectors of education.
• Consideration of international and global influences on education.
• Comparative analysis of the education policy and practice from the local, national, and global perspective.

• The concept of inclusion and how it is defined.
• The historical context of Special Educational Need and the relevance to attainment and achievement.
• Gender, social class, and race and ethnicity as factors affecting attainment and achievement.
• Theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding the impact of risk factors in relation to educational attainment and engagement.
• Recent and developing policy for inclusion and initiatives affecting practice in various educational settings.
• The value and use of case studies to consider the impact of policy and practice in Inclusion.
• Reasonable adjustment and the debate over mainstreaming.

• Psychological theories of adolescence and development;
• The influence of social and cultural capital on adolescent development;
• Social evolution and the creation of the ‘teenager';
• Sociological theories relating to youth and youth culture;
• Perceptions of adolescence and the role of the media;
• Social and moral issues associated with young people – sex, drugs, crime;
• Agencies involved in the welfare and education of young adults;
• Policy responses to youth issues.
• Factors influencing attitudes to learning – especially related to those not in education employment or training (NEET).