Program Overview

Company Compliance and Administration

Overview

To provide students with the knowledge of compliance & administration processes, required to fulfil the role of an effective governance professional.

Summary

This short course provides the student with the knowledge of compliance and administration processes that are required to fulfil the role of an effective governance professional.

About this course

About

The short course examines the role of the Company Secretary as a governance professional in promoting and reinforcing effective governance. It covers the knowledge and skills required to ensure compliance with relevant statutory and regulatory obligations as well as good governance practice.

Linked programmes

• MSc Management and Corporate Governance
• PgCertPD Professional Development

Assessment

• Written Examination (Written) [100%]: The module will be assessed by way of a 3 hour online timed examination consisting of 6 questions of which the students must answer 4 questions.
• All questions are equally weighted and are marked out of 25.
• One of the questions will be pre-seen and will be based on a topical issue to a company secretary/governance professional.

Attendance

• This course requires on-campus attendance, at our Belfast campus, on Tuesdays, from 2:15pm to 5:15pm, during Semester 2, in 2025.
• The course starts on Tuesday 28 January, 2025.
• Please note, dates and timetabling may be subject to change.

Entry requirements

• Any degree (second class honours or above).

English Language Requirements

• Applicants whose first language is not English must meet the minimum English entrance requirements of the University and will need to provide recent evidence of this (certified within the last two years).
• Most of our courses require a minimum English level of IELTS 6.0 or equivalent, with no band score under 5.5.
• Trinity ISE: Pass at level III also meets this requirement.

Start dates

• 28 January 2025

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

• The content for each course is summarised on the relevant course page, along with an overview of the modules that make up the course.
• Each course is approved by the University and meets the expectations of:
  • the relevant generic national Qualification Descriptor
  • the applicable Subject Benchmark Statement
  • the requirements of any professional, regulatory, statutory and accrediting bodies.

Attendance and Independent Study

• As part of your course induction, you will be provided with details of the organisation and management of the course, including attendance and assessment requirements - usually in the form of a timetable.
• For full-time courses, the precise timetable for each semester is not confirmed until close to the start date and may be subject to some change in the early weeks as all courses settle into their planned patterns.
• For part-time courses which require attendance on particular days and times, an expectation of the days and periods of attendance will be included in the letter of offer.
• A course handbook is also made available.

Academic profile

• The University employs over 1,000 suitably qualified and experienced academic staff - 60% have PhDs in their subject field and many have professional body recognition.
• Courses are taught by staff who are Professors (19%), Readers, Senior Lecturers (22%) or Lecturers (57%).

Fees and funding

Prices

• Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and EU Settlements Status Fees: £612.45
• England, Scotland, Wales and the Islands Fees: £612.45
• International Fees: £Not Applicable

Fees information

• Payment of Fees and Deposits: Information about how to pay for a course including different payment options is available.
• Fees and Funding: Information and advice about course fees and a guide to budgeting for your living costs, as well as sources for financial assistance including hardship funding, scholarships, prizes and awards, is available.

Additional mandatory costs

• It is important to remember that costs associated with accommodation, travel (including car parking charges) and normal living will need to be covered in addition to tuition fees.
• Where a course has additional mandatory expenses (in addition to tuition fees) we make every effort to highlight them above.
• We aim to provide students with the learning materials needed to support their studies.
• Our libraries are a valuable resource with an extensive collection of books and journals, as well as first-class facilities and IT equipment.
• Computer suites and free Wi-Fi are also available on each of the campuses.

Terms and Conditions

• We prepare our prospectus and online information about our courses with care and every effort is made to ensure that the information is accurate.
• The printed version of the prospectus is, however, published at least a year before the courses begin.
• Information included in the prospectus may, therefore, change.
• This includes, but is not limited to changes to the terms, content, delivery, location, method of assessments or lengths of the courses described.
• Not all circumstances are foreseeable, but changes will normally be made for one of the following reasons:
  • to meet external, professional, or accredited body requirements;
  • to provide for exceptional circumstances due to reasons beyond our reasonable control;
  • to improve or enhance your experience, or to adopt changes recommended in student feedback, with the aim of improving the student experience and/or student outcomes; and/or
  • to ensure appropriate academic standards are met, for example in response to external examiners’ feedback.

Sustainability at Ulster

• Ulster continues to develop and support sustainability initiatives with our staff, students, and external partners across various aspects of teaching, research, professional services operations, and governance.
• At Ulster every person, course, research project, and professional service area on every campus either does or can contribute in some way towards the global sustainability and climate change agenda.
• We are guided by both our University Strategy People, Place and Partnerships : Delivering Sustainable Futures for All and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Ulster University Business School - Sustainability in Focus

• Ulster University Business School (UUBS) aims to be a thought-leader for sustainable business futures.
• Our mission is to embolden staff, students and all our stakeholders to become sustainable business futures leaders.
• We aim to support and showcase sustainability research and education across Ulster University Business School.
• We do so by embedding the sustainable futures agenda into five remits: sustainability performance, research and knowledge exchange, learning and teaching, student experience and communications and engagement.
• We are a member of PRME – the Principles for Responsible Management Education concordat.

Learning and Teaching

• We support and develop ‘Education for Sustainable Development’ within the Faculty’s Learning & teaching portfolio.
• We do so by providing bespoke staff training on ESD and curating an ESD Resources Hub.
• All UUBS undergraduate and post-graduate course are mapped against the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and students are actively involved in learning for sustainable development.
• We seek to enhance the student experience by encouraging our students to become actively involved in sustainability initiatives, such as Carbon Literacy Training, the Big Spring Clean and collaborating with the Northern Ireland Resource Network.

Research and Knowledge Exchange

• We develop, support and disseminate sustainability-themed research within the Faculty and beyond.
• Our annual sustainability research networking event creates new research strands within the Faculty’s research portfolio.
• We actively support out PhD community to embed sustainability in their research and provide training on methods and critical thinking on sustainability.
• We partner with other institutions, such as Queen’s University Belfast and Atlantic Technological University to broaden our sustainability research and create interdisciplinary research links.

Communications and Engagement

• UUBS has a dedicated Sustainability Committee, tasked with developing dedicated internal and external communications and engagement activities promoting the sustainability work of the Faculty.
• We host an annual Sustainability Business Breakfast, attend and speak at notable sustainability events, such as the SustainExchange Summit, the Belfast Re[Act] Festival and the NI Science Festival.
• Our sustainability work is monitored on our bespoke UUBS SDG Dashboard on our dedicated UUBS sustainability webpages.
• Our sustainability performance team oversees the Faculty’s Academy Restaurant’s Green Academy programme and associated eco-certifications Green Key and Green Tourism Gold Award.