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Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP)

Individual Professional Award

Mode of Attendance: Distance Learning

Description

The Short Course Scheme has been a tremendous experience, enabling my return to higher education while balancing career and family. I have applied the thinking and learning gained to my work with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, designing with stakeholders an incentive-based project for tourism and forestry.

Grant A Ritchie – Manager, NER Planning Unit

Whether you’re looking to update your professional skills, or wanting to sample distance learning before embarking on a postgraduate degree, we offer an attractive array of postgraduate level courses.

The Individual Professional Award (IPA) scheme enables you to study one or more individual modules outside the structure of a formal CeDEP degree programme.

Most students study for IPAs over the course of a study year (30 weeks: February to October). However, for selected modules, there is a second entry point during the year where students can study for an award in a shorter period (15 weeks: June to October). For further information and a list modules available for June entry see the Enrolment page.

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Benefiting from the Individual Professional Award

In general, the Individual Professional Award caters for three categories of students:

Category I - Professional Updating

Those wishing to take an individual module or modules on a one-off basis for reasons of professional updating and/or special interest. They may select from any of the modules shown in the list below.

Category II - Sampler

Those wishing to ‘sample’ a programme before deciding whether to apply for MSc, Postgraduate Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate registration. These students are advised to choose from the modules available, one which is a core module from the programme of interest to them.

Category III - Qualifier

Those required to pass one module initially in order to qualify for consideration for entry to the Postgraduate Certificate. These students MUST select one module from the list of core modules of your proposed programme of study

Registration and Examination

Entry to study an IPA is at the discretion of CeDEP, with each application assessed on merit. As with all CeDEP qualifications, registration is with the University of London.

Registration is for one year only, and students will be examined at the end of the study year*. On satisfactory completion of the module(s), including examination, students receive an IPA certificate from the University of London.

IPA students who are subsequently registered for either the MSc or Postgraduate Diploma will be credited with any relevant modules successfully completed under the IPA scheme.

Students may complete a maximum of three IPA modules.

*IPA Module R106 Research Methods is examined through written assignments rather than final written examination.  For more information on assessment and examinations see the Assessment page.

Modules available as IPA short courses
Module CodeModule Title
C02Economic Principles
C05Applied Econometrics
C110Agricultural Trade and Policy
C116Economics and Institutions for Development
C119Understanding Poverty
C121Economics of Environmental Policy
C122Environmental Valuation: Theory, Techniques & Application
C123Managing Knowledge and Communication for Development
C124Climate Change and Development
C126Water Resources Management
C127Political Economy of Public Policy
C128Rural Finance
C132NGO Management
C134Project Planning and Management
C135Socio-economics of Rural Livelihoods
C138Marketing for Small Agribusinesses
C140Gender and Social Development
C168Sustainable Land Management
C170Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy
C185Sustainable Forest Management
C191Assessing and Understanding Biological Diversity**
C198Biodiversity Utilisation**
C200Environmental Science and Management
C201Understanding Sustainable Development
C205Natural Resource Economics
C207Environmental Assessment
C208Environmental Auditing and Environmental Management Systems
C214International Environmental Law
C225Food Security and Social Protection
C230Rural Development
C231Management in Rural Development
C263Ethics for Environment and Development
R106Research Methods
** For the 2013 study year, these modules are offered to IPA students for Professional Updating (Category I) only.