Postgraduate Diploma in Project Management with Communications

Why master the skills of project management? A simple question and an equally simple answer. Today’s hugely competitive environment prompts industries to improve and grow, and in doing so, implement projects to create new and better services and products. And no industry is exempt. From managing science research projects, launching a new product, debuting a newly released film or music album, starting up a new business, developing properties, building a bridge, conducting a medical trial, or managing the distribution of emergency food and water. Huge discrepancies exist between types of project and project size, from a single person working part time to tens of thousands of team members working across countries and continents. Projects are vastly different from each other and occupy so many sectors and industries. What’s more, many people do not realize that they are already practising elements of management within their current jobs.

Project Management is now seen as an industry independent career choice. It is an exciting, dynamic and hugely desirable career, attracting an immense spectrum of professionals from all corners of the globe.

This postgraduate diploma is aimed at anyone who wants to undertake a complete and comprehensive course in the practicalities and methodologies behind Project Management. The course first defines the basic principles behind project management, how to initiate and plan a project, and skills in which to coordinate the management team and other internal and external resources. The course then provides in-depth specifics on the project management life cycle, time and budget scheduling, responding to risk and uncertainty, managing project progress and change, problem solving and potential conflict, project auditing, and the projected future of Project Management.

Throughout the course, students will be introduced to many tools that are available online to help optimize practical skills and knowledge. The course encourages interactive learning, whereby practical activities reinforce information learnt and brings to light any problems students may have regarding each learning topic. By studying realistic case studies and working on set exercises, participants would have equipped themselves with a thorough insight into project management that they can then go on and use within any sector they wish to focus on. Students, therefore, would have gained a full understanding of how to initiate and plan a project, and be able to recognize and thus tackle all eventualities that may surface.