About Work-Based Learning
What is Work-Based Learning?
Work-Based Learning programmes enable students to fit study around work. Unlike other similar programmes that require students to be away off site during working hours, our programmes only require a maximum of six days away over an academic year and use blended learning techniques. During this time there is minimum disruption to the workplace and their employers.
All three Management programmes are ideal for managers who are keen to gain a professional management qualification to enhance their chances of promotion. The manager’s role is becoming more complex and competition is increasing, therefore a management development programme that improves a manager’s confidence and performance will be beneficial to both the employee and employer.
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Management courses and Community Cohesion courses brochures.
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Blended Learning
All three courses utilise blended learning techniques. The attendance pattern consists of three elements:
- Face to face contact with tutors over six days spread through the year
- Monthly half-day group discussions with 5-6 fellow students and tutor in Action Learning
- Set meetings and extensive online support using the university’s virtual learning environment.
The emphasis is on developing a learning community where students and staff learn together in an informal network in which mutual trust and respect prevails.
Our residentials are held at the Woodland Grange Management and Conference Centre.
What we do
Our aim is to develop managers with a broad range of management knowledge which has academic underpinning. We focus on practical managerial effectiveness, rather than broad theoretical base. The programmes are designed to equip managers with a range of techniques, tools, and models which they can apply in practice.
It enables them to solve management problems and improve their organisation’s performance through critical analysis, while dealing with complex management issues creatively and effectively. All the assignments and projects the students undertake address real life issues and include action plans and recommendations helping the individual and the organisation achieve their goals. The assignments also enable students to develop a deeper understanding of the subject area they have decided to focus on.
Benefits
- Employers benefit from completion of assignment projects
- Use of your own work projects for assessment
- Students benefit from overlap between study and work
- Course design involves a minimum time away from the workplace
- A qualification that can be awarded after one year of study
- Improves time management and organisational skills
- Instils confidence, making employees more effective in the workplace
- Greater effectiveness as a manager
- There are no examinations; assessment by coursework only
Work-Based Learning courses
Community Cohesion courses