Directory
Find out which Universities and Registered Qualification Providers have agreed to the College RPL Process. Course costs displayed are the annual charge for a full time year, part time costs will vary dependent on the number of modules completed in that year.
View disclaimerFoundation Degree Professional Practice
The Professional Practice Framework is designed to allow practitioners in work to study for a degree in their professional field. Depending upon their experience and aspirations individual officers, managers and support staff can achieve an undergraduate degree, postgraduate certificate/diploma or Masters in their own practice. The course is offered through a blended learning provision that does not require learners to take extensive time off work but provides full support for those who may not have studied in higher education before or for some time.
Introduction to People Management
This course provides a board overview of human resource management and will include theoretical concepts related to human resource management. You will also explore motivational theory and what this means for managing people in practice as well as managing oneself and others including the principles of induction, supervision and appraisal.
LLM Applied Human Rights
This postgraduate degree provides the grounding you need to enter the field of human rights advocacy and advances your prior degree-level study.
Acquire specialist expertise in the field of international or domestic human rights.
MA Applied Human Rights
This postgraduate degree provides the grounding you need to enter the field of human rights advocacy and advances your prior degree-level study.
Acquire specialist expertise in the field of international or domestic human rights.
MA Business Management
The programme offers a rigorous and intellectually stimulating study environment and the opportunity for career and personal development for those with post-graduation experience (Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership leading to Chartered Manager status).
- To develop students who may be expected in time to make a significant contribution to managing at a strategic level in their organisation. The Programme of study is aimed at the preparation for strategic leadership and transformational roles in organisations.
- To assist graduates to ground new knowledge within their professional experience, to enable them to reflect on and integrate new knowledge which then be applied to new scenarios by challenging preconceptions and having a healthy disregard of subject boundaries (‘to remove subject and functional boundaries’ – Master’s benchmark statement 2015,p10).
MA Criminology (PG Cert / PG Dip options available)
The degree consists of six 20-credit modules and the completion of a 15,000-word dissertation or a Work-Based Learning project (under the supervision of a staff member) on a topic of the student’s choice.
The degree is designed to equip the student with the knowledge and skills required to investigate and analyse problems of crime, conflict and control, and transnational crime and justice.
It combines four core modules offering a sophisticated understanding of contemporary criminological theory methods and issues, and debates in global criminology and policing, human rights and justice and terrorism.
Optional modules enable the student to focus on areas of special interest – including institutions of criminal justice, community safety, drugs, environmental crime and green criminology and youth offending.
MA Criminology and Criminal Justice
This course enhances student knowledge of historical, contemporary and global perspectives on crime, criminal justice and social control. It encourages students to develop a critical understanding of the key themes, issues and political debates concerning crime, crime control and criminal and social justice in the UK and globally. Core modules include: Comparative Penal Policy; International Crime, Policing and Security; Advanced Study Skills; Research Methods for Global Criminology; Social Exclusion and Victimisation in a Global Context; Social Sciences Postgraduate Dissertation.
MA Human Resource Management/ Development
The MA Human Resource Management/Development programme is intended as a standalone course for students who have completed the University’s Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management/Development; are Chartered Members of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) (achieved through the Education route) or have completed an Advanced level CIPD accredited programme.
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The current Directory contents has been produced following engagement with the HEI forum and desk based research. An application for the inclusion of additional courses can be downloaded here.