20-Week  Online Postgraduate Diploma; 10-Week Online Postgraduate Certificate (Video-Enhanced).

Gain a Postgraduate Diploma in 20 weeks or a Postgraduate Certificate in 10 weeks, in the comfort of your home or office. These durations are based on direct lecturer contact of 3 hours per day and 6 days per week. You might study an Online Postgraduate Diploma Course, in 20 weeks, or an Online Postgraduate Certificate, in the comfort of your homes, through HRODC Postgraduate Training Institute’s Video-Enhanced Online Delivery. We will deliver the 360 hours and 180 hours ‘Direct-Lecturer-Contact’, for the Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate, respectively, as are required by our Institute’s Regulation, within the stipulated 20 or 10 weeks. We aim to fit the tuition around your work and leisure, thereby enhancing your effective ‘Life-Style Balance’, at times convenient to you and your appointed tutor. All short courses accumulate to a Postgraduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma, with the required number of Credit-Hours. All Postgraduate Short Courses accumulate to a Postgraduate Certificate, with 180 Credit-Hours and Postgraduate Diploma, with 360 Credit-Hours. Apart from Predesigned Postgraduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma, we can customise these Awards, for you. You might also pick and match your Postgraduate Short Courses, to form Postgraduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma.

 

 Our Online (Video-Enhanced)  Study Mode

 In a move away from the traditional online courses and embracing recent developments in Computer-Mediated Distance Education (Crawford, 2003), HRODC Postgraduate Training Institute has introduced a Video-Enhanced Online delivery. This Online mode of delivery is revolutionary and, at the time of writing, is unique to our Institute.

 Our Video-Enhanced On-Line Mode is similar to being in a classroom – but virtually.

The tutor meets the individual or group, via Video and presents the course, in a similar manner to the classroom-based delivery;

Participants will see and interact with each other, and with the tutor.

They watch and discuss the various video cases and demonstration videos that form an integral part of our courses and programmes;

Their assessment is structured in a similar way to its classroom-based counterpart;

Each Postgraduate Diploma, Postgraduate Certificate, or Diploma - Postgraduate - Short Course usually starts on the 1st of each month, with the cut-off date being the 20th, for inclusion in the following month’s intake.

Despite taking twice as many days as its classroom-based rival, it amounts to the same number of Credit-Hours. For example, a 5-day (30 Credit Hours) classroom-based course will last 10 days, in Video-Enhanced On-Line mode. This calculation is based on 3 hours tuition per day, in line with the Institute’s required 30 Credit Hours;

Postgraduate Diploma Programme Deliveries last 20 weeks, while Postgraduate Certificate is of a 10-week duration, based on lectures of 3 hours per day, 6 days per week;

The cost of the Video-Enhanced On-Line mode is 67% of the classroom-based programme or course.

Like their classroom-based counterparts, our online Postgraduate Short Courses accumulate to a Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate Diploma, within a 6-year period, Both Postgraduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma might also be gained through direct-entry. The table below provides an indication of Credit-Hours, and Award, with Credit-Value - where appropriate.

The following are examples of our Video-Enhanced Online Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate Programmes and Diploma - Postgraduate Short Courses

Examples of Online PG Dip, PG Cert, PG Short Courses (Online Course #; Duration; Cost; Course or Programme Title; and Award). Click on View Full List of Online Courses.

#010; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Human Resource Management: A Practitioner’s Approach Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management.

#014; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Comprehensive Automotive Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Diagnostic, Maintenance and Repair Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Comprehensive Automotive Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Diagnostic, Maintenance and Repair.

#017; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Comprehensive Real Estate Management Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Real Estate Management.

#028; 10 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days per Week; £20,100.00 Industrial Health and Safety Management, Incorporating Oil and Gas Safety Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Certificate in Industrial Health and Safety Management, Incorporating Oil and Gas Safety, Accumulating to a Postgraduate Diploma, with 180 additional Credit-Hours.

#032; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Executive Management, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Executive Management.

#032 Block 6; 10 Days, 3 Hours Per Day; £3,350.00 Managing Individual Performance Course, Leading to Diploma – Postgraduate – in Managing Individual Performance and Executive Management Block 6, 30 Credit-Hours, Accumulating to a Postgraduate Certificate, with 150 additional Credit-Hours, or a Postgraduate Diploma, with 330 additional Credit-Hours.

#043; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Communication, Information Gathering, Analysis and Report Writing Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Communication and Information Management.

#044; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Women In Management Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Women and Management.

061; 10 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £20,100.00 Financial Accounting and Management Accounting Course, Leading to Postgraduate Certificate in Financial Accounting and Management Accounting, Accumulating to a Postgraduate Diploma, with a 180 Additional Credit-Hours = 6 X 5-Day, or 3 X 10-Day Courses.

#064; 20 Days, 3 Hours Per Day; £6,700.00 High Voltage Engineering: Designing a Reliable and Economic Insulation System Course, Leading to Diploma – Postgraduate – in High Voltage Engineering, Double Credit, 60 Credit-Hours, Accumulating to a Postgraduate Certificate, with 120 additional Credit-Hours, or a Postgraduate Diploma, with 300 additional Credit-Hours.

#070; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Human Resource Training and Development Management, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Training and Development Management.

#079; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 National and International  Economic  Competitiveness:  Towards  Economic  Growth and  Sustainability, Intensive Full-Time (3 Months) Programme (360 Credit-Hours).

#085; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Corporate Governance and Strategic Management - incorporating Corporate Strategy, Intensive Full-Time (3 Months) Programme (360 Credit-Hours) Leading to Postgraduate Diploma and . in Corporate Governance and Strategic Management.

#086; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Business Administration Programme,  Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration.

#097; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Telecommunication Systems Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Telecommunication Systems.

#115; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Cost Accounting, Budgeting, Profitability Analysis, Strategy and Balanced Scorecard Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in  Cost Accounting, Budgeting, Profitability Analysis, Strategy and Balanced Scorecard.

#116; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Financial Accounting: Theory and Practice Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Accounting.

#134; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 International Finance and Financial Services - Intensive Full-Time (3 Months) Programme (360 Credit-Hours) Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in International Finance and Financial Services .

#135; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Global Marketing: Local, National and International Marketing, Strategic Plan and Implementation, Intensive Full-Time (3 Months) Programme (360 Credit-Hours) Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Global Marketing: Local, National and International Marketing Strategy.

#136; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Advanced International Legal Studies, Intensive Full-Time (3 Months) Programme (360 Credit-Hours), Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced International Legal Studies.

#142; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 International Human Rights Law: National, Regional and International Human Rights Practices, Conventions and Law Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in International Human Rights Law in Peacetime and War.

#146; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 International and National Events Management Professional Events Facilitation, With Ultimate Success Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in International and National Events Management.

#157; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Human Resource Management (HRM) in the International Petroleum - Oil and Gas – Industry Programme, Leading To Postgraduate Diploma in  Human Resource Management (HRM) in the Petroleum - Oil and Gas – Industry Course

#160; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 International Petroleum – Oil and Gas – Terminal Services, SAP, Joint Venture, Health, Safety, Human Resource, Organisation and Project Management, Intensive Full-Time (3 Months) Programme (360 Credit-Hours), Leading to Postgraduate Diploma.

#163; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Advanced Oil and Gas Accounting: International Petroleum Accounting Postgraduate Diploma, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Oil and Gas Accounting: International Petroleum Accounting, Inc. International Petroleum Operations

#167; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Organisational Development and Change Management: Conceptual, Contextual and Analytical Issues, Postgraduate Diploma. Intensive Full-Time (3 Months) Programme (360 Credit-Hours).

#172; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Effective Project Management: Employing HR, Cost, Quality, Procurement, Risk, & Time Management Strategies to Enhance Objectives, leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Project Management.

#173; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Strategising Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Leading to postgraduate Diploma in Strategising Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

#175; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Drilling Operation: On-Shore and Deepwater Oil and Gas Drilling Operations, Incorporating Shale Gas Drilling Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Petroleum - Oil and Gas - On-Shore and Deepwater Drilling Operations.

#176; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Intercultural Business Communication: Effective International Business Communication, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in International Business Communication.

#177; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Computer and Information Systems Communication, Incorporating Microsoft Office Suite Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Computer and Information Systems Communication.

PG Dip: #188; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 World Trade Organisation, Anti-Dumping, Anti-Subsidy, Sustainability and Environmental Management, Development Economics and Agricultural Project Management Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in WTO, Anti-Dumping, Anti-Environmental Management, Development Economics, and Agricultural Project Management.

PG Dip: #190; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 International Petroleum – Oil and Gas – Operation for Non-Technical Staff: Mineral Rights, Upstream Oil and Gas Mineral lease Contracts, Exploration, Drilling, Production and Sale Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in International Petroleum – Oil and Gas – Operation for Non-Technical Staff.

#196; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Petroleum - Oil and Gas - Engineering: Oil and Gas Operation, Pipeline Engineering. Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), Health, Safety, Project Management and Business Report Writing Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in International Petroleum - Oil and Gas - Engineering and Business Management.

#197; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Advanced Pipeline Engineering: Pipelines For Petroleum - Oil and Gas, Water, Solids, Onshore and Deepwater Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Pipeline Engineering.

#200; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Petroleum - Oil and Gas - Production Systems, Oil and Gas Reservoir Engineering, Oil and Gas Well Testing and Health and Safety in Oil and Gas Industry Programme, leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Postgraduate Diploma in Petroleum - Oil and Gas - Production Systems, Oil and Gas Reservoir Engineering, Oil and Gas Well Testing and Health and Safety

#201; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Mining Engineering: Mining Practices, Physics, Chemistry, Mineral Rights, Safety, Mechanical Engineering and Deterministic Mineralogy, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Mining Engineering.

#203; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 International Petroleum - Oil and Gas - Accounting, Taxation, and Investments Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in International Petroleum - Oil and Gas - Accounting, Taxation, and Investments.

#204; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Authorisation for Expenditure (AFE) in the Upstream International Petroleum - Oil and Gas - Production, Accounting, Joint Venture, Lease and Sales Contracts Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Authorisation for Expenditure (AFE) in Upstream International Petroleum – Oil and Gas – Production, Accounting, Joint Venture, Lease and Sales Contracts.

#208; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Quality Management for Healthcare Reform Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Quality Management for Healthcare Reform.

#210; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Advanced Automotive Computerized Engine Controls, Transmissions and Vehicle Controller Area Network Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Automotive Computerized Engine Controls, Transmissions and Vehicle Controller Area Network

#214; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Advanced Electronic Security Engineering Technology: CCTV Design and Installation, CCTV Surveillance, Enhanced Safety and Electronic Access Control Systems Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Electronic Security Engineering Design, Installation, CCTV Surveillance, Enhanced Safety and Electronic Access Control .

#222; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Advanced English Grammar, Business English Communication, Business Technical Report Writing, and Research Methodology, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced English Grammar, Business English Communication, Business Technical Report Writing, and Research Methodology.

#225; 10 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £20,100.00 Advanced Procurement Management and Advanced Supply Chain Management Course, Leading to a Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Procurement Management and Advanced Supply Chain Management, Accumulating to a Postgraduate Diploma, with 180 additional Credit-Hours.

#226; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Protocol, Travel, Event, Tourism and Hospitality Management Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Protocol, Travel, Event, Tourism and Hospitality Management.

#227; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Operationalising Strategic Employee Resourcing:  Recruitment and Selection Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Strategic Employee Resourcing: Recruitment and Selection.

#228, 10 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £20,100.00 Enterprise Risk Management, Modern Quality Systems, and ISO 9000 Course, Leading to  Postgraduate Certificate in Enterprise Risk Management, Modern Quality Systems, and ISO 9000, Accumulating to a Postgraduate Diploma, with 180 Additional Credit-Hours .

#231; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Advanced Construction, Business, Project and Contract Management, and Advanced Value Engineering, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Construction and Contract Management and Advanced Value Engineering.

#234; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Health Service Management and Administration Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Health Service Management and Administration.

#238; 13 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days per Week; £26,800.00 International Petroleum – Oil and Gas – Exploration and Production Contracts: Upstream Oil and Gas Agreements, Leading to Postgraduate Certificate in International Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Contracts, plus 60 Credit-Hours, Accumulating to a Postgraduate Diploma, with 120 additional Credit-Hours.

#241; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Oil and Gas Drilling, Reservoir Engineering, Shale Gas Drilling and Advanced Business English Communication Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Oil and Gas Drilling, Reservoir Engineering and Business English Communication.

#245; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Advanced Legal-Dynamic Metrology: NIST, NCWM, EURAMET, WELMEC, and NPL Compliant Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Legal-Dynamic Metrology.

#247; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Procurement and Purchasing Management: Salient Processes Involving Strategy, Project, Logistics, Risk, Contract, Quality, Lead-Time, Supplier Relationship Management and Leadership Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Procurement and Purchasing Management.

#247.M1&2; 20 Days, 3 Hours Per Day; £6,700.00 Effective Purchasing Operation: Purchasing Scope and Development, Purchasing, Supply Chain, Inventory, Lead-Time, Pricing and Sourcing Management, Leading to Diploma – Postgraduate – in Purchasing Operation and Sourcing Management, Double Credit, 60 Credit-Hours, Accumulating to a Postgraduate Certificate, with 120 additional Credit-Hours, or a Postgraduate Diploma, with 300 additional Credit-Hours.

#250; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Social Security and National Insurance Management Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Social Security and National Insurance Management.

#252; 20 Weeks, 3 Hours Per Day, 6 Days Per Week; £30,150.00 Advanced Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Communications Programme, Leading to Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Communications.

 

Course Duration, Credit-Hours and Award (Examples): Postgraduate Diploma, Postgraduate Certificate, and Diploma - Postgraduate

5 Days;30 Credit-Hours; Diploma - Postgraduate

6 Days;36 Credit-Hours; Diploma - Postgraduate

10 Days;60 Credit-Hours; Diploma - Postgraduate (Double-Credit)

15 Days;90 Credit-Hours; Diploma - Postgraduate (Triple-Credit)

20 Days;120 Credit-Hours; Diploma - Postgraduate (Quad-Credit)

25 Days;150 Credit-Hours; Diploma - Postgraduate (Five-Credit)

30 Days (6 Weeks);180 Credit-Hours; Postgraduate Certificate {or Diploma - Postgraduate (Six-Credit)

60 Days (3 Months or 12 Weeks); 360 Credit-Hours; Postgraduate Diploma

 

Cumulative Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate Courses

All short courses can accumulate to the required number of hours, for the Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate, over a six-year period, from the first registration and applies to both general and specialist groupings. In this regard, it is important to note that short courses vary in length, the minimum being 5 days (Diploma – Postgraduate) – equivalent to 30 Credit Hours, representing one credit, as is tabulated below.

 

On this basis, the definitive calculation on the Award requirement is based on the number of hours studied (aggregate credit-value), rather than merely the number of credits achieved. This approach is particularly useful when a student or delegate studies a mixture of courses of different credit-values.

For those delegates choosing the accumulative route, it is advisable that they study at least two credits be attempted per year, towards a Postgraduate Diploma, and one credit annually, for Postgraduate Certificate.   This target will ensure that the required number of Credit-Hours are achieved for each Award, within the stipulated time-frame.  

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