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Advanced Professional Diploma Housing and Neighbourhood Management

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    Diploma: 1 year part-time

Course Description

Gain the skills you need to give leadership and vision to your organisation. Our bite-sized course will help you progress in your career as you enhance your knowledge of housing, regeneration planning and urban management.

Whether you work for a voluntary organisation, local authority or private agency, our course will enable you to engage in place shaping, economic development, public service delivery and the governance of urban areas. You will examine the current issues affecting housing and regeneration and learn how to tackle them.

Using real-life companies and areas as case studies, you will take part in group and individual projects to build on your current experience. This could include working in a parish council to organise a community plan, or helping an organisation to implement change management policies.

We will give you access to key players in housing and neighbourhood management, providing you with invaluable contacts after you graduate.

Entry Requirements

Applicants should either have at least a second class honours degree in the cognate subject of Housing, Health, Geography, Planning, Social Sciences or a professionally orientated subject of Teaching, Environmental Health or Community Work or similarly related subject; or at least a second class honours degree in a non-cognate subject with knowledge of housing, or significant practical work experience of housing, planning, and community development, or professional practice relating to the built environment and neighbourhood well-being. Non-standard entry may require intervention by the Course Team; an interview or to write an essay. All applications should be supported by a reference, either academic or professional; all applicants should satisfy our University English language requirements.
IELTS 6.0 with no skills below 5.5, or an equivalent qualification. The University provides excellent support for any applicant who may be required to undertake additional English language courses.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Our course focusses on career advancement through personal development. You will have the opportunity to reassess your role and gain the specialist skills to move into a new area. We will enable you to produce solutions to modern urban challenges so you can enhance the work you are currently involved with.

Planning Manager
Heritage and Conservation Manager
Housing Development Officer
Regeneration Officer

Module Details

Examine interpretations and dimensions of sustainable communities – we will give you the chance to prepare strategies for sustainable communities linked to your professional field.

Gain an overview of the key issues faced by policy makers in urban management by exploring social, economic and environmental issues and strategies for tackling urban disparity at local levels.

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