Leadership & Management FdA

Study Leadership & Management in North East Worcestershire (Redditch) or Herefordshire.

The Foundation Degree is a vocationally focused higher education qualification which integrates academic and work based learning. It represents a substantial step towards acquiring an initial degree. It is intended to equip learners with the skills and knowledge relevant to their employment in industry so satisfying the needs of employees and employers. The focus is on enhancing and developing the necessary skills, knowledge and insight to enable you to make a valued contribution into industry as managers and leaders.

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Leadership & Management FdA at Hereford College of Technology N291 C FdA/LM

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Study options

2 year full-time or 2 year plus 1 semester part-time

Get in touch

Application Enquiries

Herefordshire College of Technology
Linda Harrison (Program Manager)
01432 365528
HarrisonL01@hct.ac.uk

60 UCAS Tariff points

However, applications are welcomed from students who have experience of working in this area, but do not have formal qualifications or tariff points.

Modules

First Year
Economics
Finance & Accounting
Human Resource Management
Legal & Ethical Framework
Making Business Decisions
Management
Marketing
Personal & Professional Development

Second Year
Coaching in the Workplace
Continuing Personal & Professional Development
Leadership
Leadership in Practice
Management Research Methods
Management Research Project
Managing People
Project Management

Assessment

The aim of the Foundation Degree is to make you more effective at management level. It will provide you with practical transferable skills of immediate use in your career, through work-based assignments. These may take the form of reports, investigations, and group presentations.

Graduate, 2008

‘The strength of the course for me was the focus on personal and professional practice and I have been able to use much in my day to day work, as well as preparing me to take a full BA.’

Academic department

Worcester Business School

“We champion an imaginative ethos that combines sound business principles with instinctive commercial drive. Our students ranked us in the top 5% of universities for ‘personal development’.”
Mark Richardson, Head of Worcester Business School

Employability

The Foundation Degree develops your work-specific leadership & management skills. The course is ideally suited to those in their first leadership or management role or those aspiring to move their career in that direction. Owing to the work-based nature of the course, students would be encouraged to be employed in a suitable full or part time job.

On completion of the course you will have the opportunity to develop your career path and/or continue to study for a higher qualification.

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