University Certificate Career Leadership 

The course is ideal if you are a newly appointed school careers leader or have been doing the work of a careers leader for some time. 

You will consolidate and build on your current experience and embed your knowledge and skills in the theoretical basis of careers work in your practice, so that you can improve, develop and grow your careers programme. 

The course is designed around the four key areas of careers leadership: 

• Leadership
• Management
• Coordination
• Networking

These areas are addressed through 13 sessions of learning. 

Completion of the course and the attainment of 20 credits at level 6 will give you access to further study at Christ Church, including our MA Career Management. This programme incorporates the ‘gold standard’ careers qualifications, the QCD, which includes career guidance and counselling skills and enables you to not only lead careers work in your school but also to offer one to one and group counselling and guidance.  

Alternatively, you could choose to apply to a provider of the OCR Level 6 Diploma and apply for recognition of prior learning to have the credits from this course accepted as part of that diploma. We will provide a mapping of the learning outcomes of our course against the OCR learning outcomes for this purpose. 

The total number of teaching and learning hours is 174. This includes self-study, attendance, activities and employer visits.  

All teaching and learning sessions will be available through our virtual learning environment. Maximum use of this medium will be made with the blended learning option.  

For those sessions attended in person, sessions will be interactive, practical and discussion based. One of the aims of this course is to share good practice and to learn from each other. So discussion, on and off line is essential to build a grounding in reflective practice and continual evaluation and improvement.  

We will share ideas, resources and activities so that, at the end of the course we have created a sustainable ongoing community of practice.  

The course is led by Dr Anne Chant and delivered by a team of experienced and fully qualified careers practitioners. 

For those wishing to achieve 20 credits at Level 6, a written assignment will be submitted at the end of the course. This work will be developed and supported throughout the course and additional workshops and tutorials will be available. 

Fees

2019/20 tuition fees for this course

If you are in receipt of Careers Enterprise Company funding the fees will be paid directly by them. If not please contact Anne Chant for details of alternative sources of funding or self-funding options. 

Email: anne.chant@canterbury.ac.uk 

Students may self-fund their course or a sponsor may fund or part-fund. Bursaries, scholarships and fee discounts may also be available.

Further information

• See information about financial support available for postgraduate studies
• If you would like information about paying your fees, please contact finance@canterbury.ac.uk
• For specific fee queries, please contact fees@canterbury.ac.uk

Additional course costs

Although we aim to minimise any additional costs to students over and above the course tuition fee, there will be some additional costs which students are expected to meet.

Costs applicable to all students

General principle policy

The University’s general principles policy for additional course fees are set out here

Applications for this course can be completed online.

For further information, please read our guidance on how to apply online.

Further information:
For more information, you can also contact the Programme Director, Anne Chant.
Email: anne.chant@canterbury.ac.uk