8 Online Education and Teaching Degree Programs in South Africa

The changing education landscape demands teachers to be leaders and have management skills beyond what was expected before. The Bachelor of Education Honours in Leadership and Management is the very first online honours programme in Africa with six starts a year and offers just that. It is a specialised qualification with a strong focus on research and aims to develop research capacity and academic scholarship.

The online Master of Education (MEd) in Educational Management is relevant to anyone involved in the formal or informal education sector. The range of modules will add value to previous learning and provide conceptual and theoretical frameworks to make sense of and review practices. While the programme is globally informed, you will be expected to interrogate imported information in the light of your local contextual knowledge and practice with the intention of finding your own educational management voice.

The aim of this programme is to respond to the increased need for professional educators in South Africa. The Postgraduate Certification in Education (PGCE) Intermediate Phase Teaching is for students who want to qualify as professional educators in the Intermediate Phase after having completed an appropriate three-year degree or recognised National Diploma.

The Doctor of Educational Administration is designed to prepare experienced practitioners for senior administrative and policy-making positions, and pursue careers in policy, university or college teaching, and research. The students are able to specialize in the areas of administration and policy analysis in higher education, student development and student affairs, international and comparative higher education, historical and philosophical foundations of higher education, finance and economics of higher education, and organizational culture and change.

The MEd in Educational Leadership is designed to enable graduates who are well-educated in the principles and practices of transformative learning, as applied to contexts such as expressive and movement arts education, developmental and health coaching, and transformative leadership.

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The AIU Distance Learning Master of Science in Educational Administration program will be a custom-made program, designed just for you by you and your academic advisor. This flexibility to meet student needs is seldom found in other distance learning programs. Our online program does not require all students to take the same subjects/courses, use the same books, or learning materials.

Doctor of Philosophy in Accounting Sciences is an appropriate master's degree in the field of Accounting Sciences is required. All students with foreign qualifications, including those with qualifications from African countries, must have their qualifications evaluated at SAQA. In addition to this requirement, candidates must submit a transcript of their academic record, as well as a document describing their intended research and preferred focus area.