Program Overview

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.

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.

Key Details

• Recruiting to: UK / RoI / Settled in UK
• Course Location: Lancaster
• Institute: Institute of Business, Industry and Leadership
• Delivery Style: In Person
• Course Duration: Full-time: 2 Years
• Course Start Point: September
• Award: Apprenticeship

Minimum entry requirements

• Tuition Fees Policy

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.

Overview

Government funding rules require that an apprentice must:

• have the right to live and work in the UK
• be in employment, paid at least the legal minimum wage
• have a written and signed agreement for the apprenticeship with their employer.

The minimum duration periods for an apprenticeship set in each Apprenticeship Standard, is based on an apprentice working a minimum of 30 hours per week. Where the apprentice works fewer than 30 hours, the minimum duration of the apprenticeship must be increased on a pro-rata basis.

All apprentices must be interviewed, assessed and offered a position by an employer before being admitted to the apprenticeship programme. After acceptance by an employer, the University of Cumbria will require a formal application, which it will assess according to the programme entry criteria.