Applied Food Safety and Quality Management, PGDip/MSc
Postgraduate
In Gillingham
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Gillingham
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Duration
1 Year
On this course, you'll learn about the requirements for providing safe and wholesome food to consumers with our specialist course in applied food safety and quality management. We follow the farm-to-fork approach to address a wide variety of food safety and quality management issues.
Topics include good governance and national control systems, food inspection and testing services. You'll cover the management of food safety and quality across the supply chain, as well as how to design and implement safety and quality management systems to meet national and international legislation. The course is research-informed and is taught by staff at the award-winning Natural Resources Institute (NRI), with its unique knowledge base and industry experience.
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About this course
Graduates from the programme have gone on to secure jobs in food quality assurance, technical management, product development, food policy, inspection and enforcement, food analysis, post-harvest handling and storage, as well as academia and research.
Applicants should have:
A Bachelor's degree at 2:2 or above (or equivalent) from a recognised university
Or an equivalent professional qualification in an appropriate science subject.
* If you do not have formal entry qualifications, you may be admitted, depending on your work experience and responsibilities.
* Students educated in a language other than English should have an IELTS score of 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each skill) or equivalent.
What you should know about this course
You’ll be able to apply for short placements in the food sector, which provides you with the vital experience you need when applying for jobs.
Accredited by the Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST), the leading qualifying body for food professionals in Europe.
You can also sit the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) Level 3 Award in HACCP for Food Manufacturing.
We invite experts from the food safety sector to deliver lectures, giving you the chance to learn from industry practitioners.
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Subjects
- IT Law
- Risk
- Risk Analysis
- Staff
- Commodities
- Options
- Quality Assurance
- Ethics
- Quality
- Horticulture
- Microbiology
- Supply
- Marketing
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Climate Change
- International
- Law
- Private
- Project
- Systems
- Technology
- Industry
- Government
- Food safety
- IT risk
- Quality management
- Quality Training
- Trade
- World Trade
- Climate
- Food Science
- Food Microbiology
- Food Chemistry
Course programme
Option Set 1
Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.
- Academic English for Postgraduates (Science)
- Research Methods for Postgraduates (15 credits)
- Research Project (Short) (60 credits)
- Food Safety and Quality Management (30 credits)
- Risk Analysis for Agriculture and the Environment (15 credits)
- Sustainable Pesticide Management (15 credits)
- Environmental Footprinting and Climate Change (15 credits)
- Postgraduate Negotiated Learning Module (15 credits)
- Food Safety and World Trade (15 credits)
- Laboratory Quality Assurance (15 credits)
- Food Marketing (15 credits)
- Food Chemistry (15 credits)
- Postharvest Technology of Fruit and Vegetables (15 credits)
- Food Preservation (15 credits)
- Food Product and Process Development (30 credits)
- Food Inspection for Government Officials (15 credits)
- Managing Prerequisite Programmes (15 credits)
- Food Authenticity and Traceability (15 credits)
- Food Microbiology (15 credits)
- Postharvest Technology and Economics (30 credits)
- Food Safety (30 credits)
Students are required to study the following compulsory modules.
- Academic English for Postgraduates (Science)
- Research Methods for Postgraduates (15 credits)
- Research Project (Short) (60 credits)
- Food Safety and Quality Management (30 credits)
- Postharvest Technology and Economics (30 credits)
- Food Safety (30 credits)
- Risk Analysis for Agriculture and the Environment (15 credits)
- Sustainable Pesticide Management (15 credits)
- Environmental Footprinting and Climate Change (15 credits)
- Food Safety and World Trade (15 credits)
- Laboratory Quality Assurance (15 credits)
- Food Marketing (15 credits)
- Food Chemistry (15 credits)
- Postharvest Technology of Fruit and Vegetables (15 credits)
- Food Preservation (15 credits)
- Food Product and Process Development (30 credits)
- Food Inspection for Government Officials (15 credits)
- Managing Prerequisite Programmes (15 credits)
- Food Authenticity and Traceability (15 credits)
- Food Microbiology (15 credits)
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Applied Food Safety and Quality Management, PGDip/MSc