Online Top Up Degree :: Accredited Universities

If you have completed an OU foundation degree or diploma of higher education in engineering (or equivalent) within the last eight years, this course enables you to top up your knowledge and skills to honours degree level. You can tailor your studies to build on your previous qualifications and experience. Flexible module choices include structural integrity, micro and nano technology, engineering design, environmental technologies, and energy and sustainability. You will also complete an individual engineering project.

Key features of the course
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Matches the final stage (Stage 3) of our Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (Q65) degree

Learning outcomes defined to fulfil the Engineering Council’s educational requirements under UK-SPEC

Opens up a wide range of career opportunities and prepares you for postgraduate engineering courses

Entry Requirements

Before registering on this degree, you’ll need to have successfully completed one of the following OU qualifications (or an equivalent qualification from elsewhere) within the last eight years:

- Foundation Degree in Engineering (X11)

- Diploma of Higher Education in Engineering (W11)

- Foundation Degree in Materials Fabrication and Engineering (X12)

- Diploma of Higher Education in Materials Fabrication and Engineering (W12)

Examples of equivalent study might be a relevant engineering-based foundation degree from another institution, or an HND together with practical or vocational experience.

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If you already hold a Postgraduate Diploma qualification in Career Guidance and want to continue your personal and professional development, this course will allow you to undertake a focused piece of research and 'top up' your qualification to a masters degree. It may be of particular interest to you if you would like to gain credit for research you are already undertaking as part of your work.

The course is conducted entirely by distance learning, offering you the flexibility to study while you continue to work in the guidance field. However you will gain continual support from experienced career guidance tutors.

You will gain research, communication and presentation skills to complement the knowledge and experience you have already gained in your work and previous qualifications.

Entry Requirements

The entry requirement for this course is a Postgraduate Diploma in Career Guidance or similar and you must currently be in employment within an organisation concerned with career guidance to be eligible for the programme.
If English is not your first language, it is usually required that you sit an English language test in order to gain entry onto our postgraduate programmes. For details of the English language tests we accept please follow this link.
This course requires the standard IELTS 6.0 with no individual component score of less than 5.5 or equivalent.

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If you’ve already completed the Foundation Degree in Primary Teaching and Learning (X02) or the Diploma of Higher Education in Primary Teaching and Learning (W02), this course enables you to top up to a degree in Childhood and Youth Studies

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Considers the practical implications of modern policy and ideas about childhood

Explores how to undertake research with children and young people

Relevant to a wide range of careers in childcare, education, health and social care

Matches the final stage (Stage 3) of our BA (Honours) Childhood and Youth Studies (Q23) degree.

Entry Requirements

To register for this top-up degree, you will need to have successfully completed either our Foundation Degree in Primary Teaching and Learning (X02) or our Diploma of Higher Education in Primary Teaching and Learning (W02), and have passed the module Childhood (E212).

You do not need to work with children in order to study this top up route to the degree.

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This course is suitable if you have an HND or foundation degree in a computing subject and want to gain a BSc Honours degree. As it is distance learning, you can complete it without having to take time out from work or move away from home.

Building on your existing knowledge, you learn how to use and apply the latest computing technologies and improve your management skills. This enables you to work in many areas of information technology needed in a wide range of organisations.

You can meet regularly with a study manager at one of our approved study centres to discuss your progress on the course. You can also meet with other students.

Most of your coursework and communication with lecturers and other students takes place electronically, at a time to suit you. You need frequent access to a computer that can run our software and access the internet.

Key points
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• Suitable for you if you already have an HND or foundation degree in a computing subject.

• Learn about the latest computing technologies and improve your management skills.

• Meet regularly with a local study manager to discuss your progress face-to-face.

• Coursework requires frequent access to a computer and the internet.

Entry Requirements

Normally you must have successfully completed two years of study in higher education in a computing-related subject such as a higher diploma course, foundation degree or similar.

If English is not your first language you normally need an IELTS score of at least 6.0 with 5.5 in all skills.

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The MSc is designed to provide continuing professional development for aspiring chartered secretaries. Specifically, it aims to extend competence gained through professional qualification with ICSA and to enhance the ability of students to think strategically about leadership and management. In particular the two modules 'The Effective Manager' and 'Strategic Leadership' take an in depth look at leadership and management skills. This top up course is available through distance learning worldwide and students are supported by online materials and tutor guidance.

These modules are concerned with the evaluation and development of skills appropriate for managing others. Effective managers have a range of different approaches to their work, sharing a diverse set of personality traits, attributes, values and beliefs. These may underpin skills proficiency, but are not in themselves skills. A key purpose of these modules is to encourage students to develop a sense of self awareness and of their own strengths and development needs as managers, colleagues and subordinates. The modules seek to build upon and improve a range of definable skills which are pivotal to effective management practice and successful leadership. More specialised skills which are of particular significance to effective people management will be enhanced and developed. The modules will introduce some of the central theories and frameworks in leadership and enable you to apply these theories and frameworks to analyse and address real strategic problems. The key themes of these modules are:

enhancing self development and the development of others
an understanding of business environmental complexity (internal and external)

key strategic leadership skills, competencies and capabilities, which also reinforce employability skills (for example self management, team work, critical-thinking, problem solving, communication)

meeting ethical challenges inherent in operating at the strategic level within multicultural contexts

promoting sustainable competitive advantage

leading change and transformation, whilst meeting the challenges of the information age

Following successful completion of the two modules, students are required to undertake a dissertation related to an aspect of corporate governance and leadership and it is expected that this would be related to current employment.

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Converts professional qualifications into an MSc
Networking opportunities with other professionals
Distance learning is supported worldwide by e-learning material

Entry Requirements

Applicants should have successfully completed The Institute of Chartered Secretaries examinations or equivalent.

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Notes

This course is not available for international students.

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