Length: Award, Certificate or Diploma?
As a rough guide:
- The Award
- is usually about 3 or 4 days of teaching and one, maybe two, pieces of written work, covering
just two or three key subjects – which you can choose. (Note, in the case of CMI these short
courses are called “Introductory Certificates/Diplomas” – very impressive but not the same as
a full Diploma). Later, if they wish, the participants can do some extra days and extend it
into:
- A Certificate:
- this is about 9 days of teaching and about 4-6 pieces of submitted work (depending on which Awarding Body). By doing extra days and assignments it can be extended to become:
- A Diploma:
- this is about 12-15 days of teaching, and about 6-8 pieces of written work, including, often, a larger project.
- Note:
- Certificates used to be at a lower level than Diplomas. Now this has been changed by the awarding bodies, so you can do Certificates and Diplomas at many levels. For example, you could do a Level 5 Diploma, or a Level 7 Certificate! It’s just the amount of learning hours that counts. The traditional CMS would now be a Level 5 Certificate, and the traditional DMS would be a Level 7 Diploma. Depending on the awarding body, these combinations have slightly different names, like “Executive Diploma” and “Advanced Professional Diploma”.
Important note on number of taught days:
We have put “About 3/9/12 taught days” because these vary, according to
a)
Which accrediting body is being used
b)Which options you choose, for example different modules may be 1, 2 or 3 days.
c)Our interpretation of the best way to teach the subject in order to achieve the learning
outcomes stipulated by the awarding body. This has been agreed with each of the awarding
bodies and is constantly reviewed
and checked by them.
(A discussion of all these options would probably be a good idea, and we won’t charge for that. We would be happy to help you with this decision! Contact us)
