The post graduate program of the Department of Educational Sciences and Social Work ‘Master In Education’ (ΦΕΚ 2916/τ. Β´/19-7-2018) provides a Postgraduate Diploma in Education – Master in Education. It aims at anyone who wants:
- to know the field of education,
- to get started in research in the field of education,
- to deepen in one of the disciplines of education.
The aim of this Interuniversity-Interdepartmental MSc is the postgraduate specialization and the deepening of the theoretical knowledge of new graduates or people working in various scientific fields on issues related, on the one hand, to higher education policy as an independent field of educational policy and to the sciences of education, and on the other hand, to higher education as a social institution and as a field of development and implementation of policies at regional, national, European and international level, as well as to the analysis of related issues on an interdisciplinary basis. In this context, the I.I.MSc aims to provide high quality postgraduate studies and thus to provide the appropriate skills that will enable postgraduate students to pursue research pathways in the field of higher education policy by continuing their studies at doctoral level with a view to becoming researchers/academics, as well as to engage professionally in the field of higher education in response to the ever-increasing needs of new institutions and new structures developed for the implementation of new higher education policies (e.g. government policy bodies such as Ministry of Education, Scholarships Foundation, etc., quality assurance and accreditation bodies (e.g. HAHA, National Organisation for the Certification of Qualifications & Vocational Guidance, etc.), educational planning bodies, corresponding innovative structures within higher education institutions, such as Quality Assurance Units, Employment and Career Structures, psychological support and guidance offices, etc.).
Educational Leadership
The aim of this interdepartmental MSc “Educational Leadership” is to provide a high level of postgraduate education to graduates of Management and Leadership of Educational Units-Organizations in the field of Educational Strategy and Lifelong Learning. More specifically, the MSc “Educational Leadership” aims to provide specialized knowledge for the following objectives through the coupling of the scientific fields of Administration and Education:
- Promotion of knowledge in the field of administration of educational units and organizations and development of research in the relevant scientific areas.
- Meeting the needs at postgraduate level for trained executives of units and organizations of education in the public and private sector.
- Providing the necessary, high level, knowledge and skills for efficient and effective management of human and material resources of educational units and organizations.
- Cultivation of the understanding of the modern educational and social environment with a view to strengthening the educational policy and the utilization of lifelong learning.