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Apprenticeship - Senior Leader (Degree)

This course would suit professional strategic leaders in the private, public or third sector and all sizes of organisation, who lead, manage and direct organisations. Specific job roles may include: Senior Leader, Section Leader, Executive, Director, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Information Officer, Senior Military Officer.

The ideal candidate will be working at least 30 hours a week, and committed to studying above their contracted hours at levels 4 and 5. They will be able to attend university one day per week, or alternatively for weekly blocks of study, supported with extensive work-based learning.



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Course Overview

The MBA Senior Leadership Higher Level Apprenticeship will allow you to build on previous experience and acquire a sound theoretical background in business and management. You'll acquire more management expertise, leading to a widening of responsibilities, and learn about the sustainable issues in Business which are applicable to private, public, and third stream organisations. Students often use the MBA a stepping stone and have found other management roles at a more senior level within their organisation.

This is a 24-month full-time apprenticeship programme where students are released by their employers one day a week. The modules are all independent and scheduled over two years.

Towards the end of the programme, you'll carry out an independent project based on your professional experience and/or the industry sector you have been working in.

On this course you will...

  • Develop relevant leadership and management skills, behaviour and knowledge.
  • Develop critical reflection skills and engagement with organisational and professional theory to understand, and where appropriate, challenge existing individual and organisational perspectives and practice.
  • Identify, develop, and implement solutions to current issues such as the growing need to better manage supply chain as well as create more effective talent acquisition and retention solutions.
  • Develop into agile, well rounded and outward looking business leaders and managers with a high concern for customers and colleagues, capable of taking responsibility for themselves, their people, their areas of responsibility and their organisation.

Course Structure

What you will learn

This programme will provide a Master’s level qualification in Business and Management for students who have an initial degree qualification in a different discipline but have significant practical postgraduate experience in a management role.

You'll develop a systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of current problems and/or new insights, which are informed by current practice and the academic disciplines of business and management studies. It will allow you to acquire a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to research and advanced scholarship in the disciplines of international business and management.

You'll learn to apply theoretical knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in the disciplines of business and management. You'll also learn to reflect on current business practice and personal experience in the discipline of international business and management to assess the role of current research and advanced scholarship.

You'll learn to examine critically methodologies and develop critiques of them and, where appropriate, to propose new hypothese, and to explore and apply qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment requiring the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility and decision-making in complex and unpredictable situations.

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    Lancaster Campus

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