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
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.
Prof. Dr. R. B. Crawford is
Programme and Course
Coordinator. He is the Director of HRODC Postgraduate Training
Institute, A Postgraduate-Only Institution, and has the following
Qualifications and Affiliations:
Doctor of Philosophy {(PhD)
{University College London (UCL) - University of London)};
MEd Management (University of
Bath);
Postgraduate (Advanced) Diploma
Science Teacher Ed. (University of Bristol);
Postgraduate Certificate in
Information Systems (University of West London, formerly Thames
Valley University);
Diploma in Doctoral Research
Supervision, (University of Wolverhampton);
Teaching Certificate;
Fellow of the Institute of
Management Specialists;
Human Resources Specialist, of the
Institute of Management Specialists;
Member of the Asian Academy of
Management (MAAM);
Member of the International
Society of Gesture Studies (MISGS);
Member of the Standing Council for
Organisational Symbolism (MSCOS);
Member of ResearchGate;
Executive Member of Academy of
Management (AOM). There, his contribution incorporates the
judging of competitions, review of journal articles, and guiding
the development of conference papers. He also contributes to the
Disciplines of:
Human Resources;
Organization and Management
Theory;
Organization Development and
Change;
Research Methods;
Conflict Management;
Organizational Behavior;
Management Consulting;
Gender & Diversity in
Organizations; and
Critical Management Studies.
Professor Dr. Crawford has been an
Academic in the following UK Universities:
University of London (Royal
Holloway), as Research Tutor;
University of Greenwich (Business
School), as Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), in
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management;
University of Wolverhampton,
(Wolverhampton Business School), as Senior Lecturer (Associate
Professor), in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource
Management;
London Southbank University
(Business School), as Lecturer and Unit Leader.
His responsibilities in these
roles included:
Doctoral Research Supervisor;
Admissions Tutor;
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Dissertation Supervisor;
Programme Leader;
Personal Tutor.
He was formerly an Expatriate at:
Ministry of Education, Sokoto, Nigeria;
Ministry of Science and Technical Education, Sokoto, Nigeria;
University of Sokoto, Nigeria;
College of Education, Sokoto, Nigeria; and
Former Editor-In-Chief
of ‘Sokoto Journal of Education’.
