Postgraduate Certificate Programme and Project Management

Bachelor's degree

In Telford

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Telford

  • Duration

    1 Year

This PG Cert course will provide professionals working in a variety of industries (ranging from IT, through engineering to creative industries) with an introduction to the requisite skills necessary to manage projects and programmes to a successful conclusion. It includes classic project and programme management, including the acquisition of skills in the widely used project management tools. In addition you will learn how to appraise issues, which if not addressed can often limit the success of projects, these are the legal issues surrounding project management, change management and financial management.

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Location

Start date

Telford (Shropshire)
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Level 3 Southwater One, Southwater Sqare, Southwater Way, TF3 4JG

Start date

On request

About this course

At the end of this course you, the student, will be able to:
apply project management systems, tools, and methodologies in a wide range of contexts, analyzing key project management themes to achieve maximum benefits realization and organisational behavioral change;
to work effectively within different types of team environments to manage and lead such teams in compliance with best practice in project and programme management within organisations;
Analyse risks and uncertainty affecting complex projects and programmes, to respond appropriately to complex project and programme issues in the absence of complete data and to communicate clearly and effectively to specialist and non-specialist stakeholders;
Demonstrate understanding of the operation of major projects and programmes as temporary organisations and behaviour within such organisations and related competence in the design and implementation of organisation structures, strategies, systems and procedures for complex programmes not only across business sectors but also in the public sector

A lower second honours degree or equivalent is required for direct entry onto the Master’s programme. Students applying for individual modules will be required to demonstrate the ability to absorb rapidly technical concepts and detail, possibly by evidence of their previous industrial or commercial experience. Students are selected using application form and references in the first instance and then usually interviewed.

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Subjects

  • Project Management
  • Project
  • IT Project Management

Course programme

  • Project Management
  • Programme Management
  • Leading Transformation and Change

You will have the opportunity to engage with a range of learning approaches during the course of your study.

You will take part in lectures and seminars. Some of these will be more traditional whereas others will require you to undertake research before coming together to discuss technical issues with a range of students and academic staff. You will have seminars from industry practitioners and have the opportunity to discuss your projects with them to gain real world insight into the problems you are trying to solve.

You will have the opportunity to work in a range of dedicated facilities to provide access to software packages used in the project and programme management disciplines. Throughout the weekly class sessions and through use of the on-line support material, you will obtain skills required to successfully implement and manage a range of project and programme management, processes and methodologies.

Often working on assessment and project briefs specified by industry practitioners, you will develop solutions to meet real world problems/requirements and be able to present these to your peers, practitioners and third parties in order to obtain balanced and current feedback. The assessment methods used will allow you to develop a portfolio of your professional level practice, which you can help to show prospective employers that you have the abilities required to deliver real-world solutions.

Postgraduate Certificate Programme and Project Management

Price on request