Program Overview

Business Law

KEY FACTS

• Faculty: School of Business
• Study Options:
• Start Date: Tuesday 21st January 2025
• Level: Microcredentials
• Course Length: 12 Weeks
• Qualification: Micro-Credential Certificate or CPD Certificate
• Apply: Open
• Placement Option: No

About this Micro-Credential

The Micro-Credential focuses on equipping students with essential legal knowledge and skills, emphasising legal risk management. It covers various aspects of legal systems, theoretical frameworks, and policies related to business and government regulation, with a specific focus on sustainability and ethics in organisational governance.
Incorporating critical thinking, the qualification will help you apply legal principles to real-world scenarios, enhancing your ability to analyse and find creative solutions to practical legal issues. Additionally, it fosters communication skills necessary for legal research and analysis in an international context.
The Micro-Credential recognises the importance of commercial law in management education, adopting a dynamic approach that emphasises the strategic role of the law in achieving organisational goals and mitigating legal risks. Managers in both public and private sectors benefit from this approach, enabling them to navigate the complex interplay of legal, social, and ethical factors in modern business practices.

Apply

Application closing date: Friday 3rd January 2025

Start Date

This Micro-Credential will commence: Tuesday 21st January 2025

Classes will take place:

• Tuesdays: 7:00pm – 8:45pm
• Thursdays: 7:00pm – 8:45pm

Fees

The total cost for this Micro-Credential is £1,150.00

Entry Profile

Typically, all applicants will *:

• Possess a good first degree awarded by a UK university or overseas equivalent.
• Be able to communicate ideas effectively in writing, in discussions and presentations. Basic IT skills, such as word-processing, email and Internet are expected.
• Have work experience; we value diversity of experience in our student body, therefore we welcome applications from recent graduates who have undertaken meaningful placements as well as those with all levels of work experience. We are more interested in the impact that you have had in your workplace than the length of time spent.

*The ethos of micro-credentials is to open a pathway for any individual who wishes to take on new learning and, in this spirit, applications will be reviewed on a case-by case basis where candidates may not precisely meet the stated entry requirements.

English Language Requirements:

• An overall IELTS test result of 6.5, including a minimum of 6.0 in all sub-tests. Equivalent awards will be considered (e.g. Pearson’s Test of English, Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English, Duolingo English Test, City & Guilds International ESOL 8984, or the TOEFL- IBT test of English proficiency).

QAA Global Accreditation

The University is delighted to have achieved global accreditation from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), the UK’s independent quality body and a global leader in quality assurance for higher education.

“In achieving QAA’s global accreditation, the University has displayed its compatibility with international best practice.”

Vicki Scott, UK Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Chief Executive.