Advanced Diploma of School Business Management (ADSBM)

Overview

The new Advanced Diploma of School Business Management (ADSBM) programme is offered as one of NCSL’s suite of school business management programmes and builds on the very successful Certificate of School Business Management (CSBM) and Diploma of School Business Management (DSBM) programmes.

This programme is designed to support the professional learning of experienced school business managers (SBMs). The ADSBM is intended to be a Level 6 postgraduate programme and as such will involve significant personal study. It will enhance the contribution of SBMs to the leadership and management of their schools as they face new challenges in increasingly complex organisational settings.

The programme aims to support and further advance professional learning of participants by:

• extending their knowledge and understanding of the changing school business manager’s role within the context of global economic and social trends, national education and welfare policies, and local developments in the organisation and delivery of services to children and young people
• extending their knowledge and understanding of teaching and learning in schools, policy initiatives related to personalised learning, and the management of resources for learning
• extending their knowledge and understanding of school leadership, consultancy roles, coaching and mentoring techniques
• improving their research skills to understand the school as an organisation and critically evaluate its adaptation to the changing educational environment of the 21st century
• developing their professional skills in measuring the performance of schools and evaluating the effectiveness of the systems and processes that facilitate learning
• developing their professional skills, specifically in key areas of performance management, programme management, strategic financial management, organisational transformation and change management.