Project Manager Degree Apprenticeship BSc (Hons)

Program Overview

BSc (Hons) Professional Practice in Project Management

Overview

This work-based programme is designed to provide the essential knowledge, understanding, and skills required to operate effectively as project managers and lead teams on a diverse range of projects and initiatives.

Key Details

• Start Date: September
• Study Mode: Part-time (3.5 years)
• Location: Leeds City Campus
• School: Business

Course Modules

Year 1

• Introduction to your Professional Degree Apprenticeship - Core
  • This module equips apprentices with essential study skills for navigating higher education and fosters reflective practice by introducing key models and theories.
• Project Environment and Organisational Strategy - Core
  • This module explores the nature and complexity of organisations, and introduces the functional specialisms in management.
• Tools and Techniques of Project Management - Core
  • This module explores tools, techniques and methodologies required for professional planning and implementing projects, evaluating costs, and managing risk.
• Methods and Principles of Project Management - Core
  • Apprentices will discover the principles of project management along with the variety of approaches required to initiate and execute projects.

Year 2

• Managing Finance within Projects - Core
  • The module addresses aims to assist apprentices with managing finance within projects.
• Apprenticeship Portfolio Review - Core
  • This module supports apprentices in reflecting on their professional experiences, identifying valuable insights from both formal education and workplace learning.
• Managing People in Projects - Core
  • This module introduces apprentices to the key aspects of theoretical management and leadership models and the application of these in practice.
• Negotiation and Conflict Resolution - Core
  • In this module, apprentices will explore the tension, which can often arise as a result of people undertaking a project, as well as the various situations where negotiation is necessary.
• Negotiated Learning: Projects in the Workplace - Core
  • Sharpen your awareness of small-scale work-based project stages and processes in this module.

Year 3

• Legal, Ethical and Professional Issues in Project Management - Core
  • This module will teach apprentices to better understand the ethical, professional and legal issues relating to project management.
• Advancing Your Portfolio Towards End Point Assessment
  • This module guides apprentices in consolidating learning and workplace experiences, introducing them to Gateway and End Point Assessment requirements.
• Leadership in Projects
  • This module will introduce apprentices to an introduction to the fundamentals of leadership, and how these relate to professional practice, from small businesses to global enterprises.
• Managing Complexity, Uncertainty and Risk in Projects
  • This module allows you to explore the overlaying structures that exist within complex project environments.
• Defining Projects for Success - Core
  • Apprentices will examine the advantages of early planning concerning procurement, funding, and contract issues whilst approaches to value management will be critiqued.

Year 4

• Work-based Project for Apprentices - Project Manager - Core
  • The work-based project will develop your knowledge, skills and behaviours (KSBs) as a project manager and allow you to demonstrate how these have been applied in a project environment.

Learning and Teaching

• Assessment Methods: reports, presentations, professional discussions, assignments, work-based projects
• Programme Delivery: Our strategy delivers excellence by providing the framework for high quality teaching, an engaging and inclusive approach to learning, assessment and achievement, and a clear structure through which you progress in your academic studies, your personal development and towards professional-level employment or further study.

Entry Requirements

• Qualifications: Must hold a level 2 qualification in English Language and Maths Grade 4/C or above
• Employment: Be employed for a minimum of 30 hours per week in a relevant role and have the support of their employer
• Residency: Live and have the right to work in England (ID will be requested)

Fees and Finance

• Cost of Programme: £22,000
• Funding: Apprenticeships are fully funded by your employer if their wage bill is over £3 million each year. The government will fund up to 95% of the apprenticeship’s course fees, up to the relevant funding band, if the organisation has spent all its levy or has an annual wage bill below £3 million each year.