NGO Education Survey

Advanced Certificate in Client-Based Voluntary Practice

This certificate builds on skills acquired in the Level 1 certificate and covers new ground. (40 credits - Level 2)

Certificate in Interpersonal Skills for Volunteers

Aims to facilitate students' learning of these skills while acquiring the knowledge to recognise and develop their existing communication skills. (40 credits, Level 1)

Dissertation

This module aims to have students produce an original, self-directed piece of work on a subject related to the student's role in the sector. (30 Credits - Level 3)

Journal

The aim of the journal is to enable students to reflect on their progress throughout their Level Three Modules. (10 Credits - Level 3)

Managing in Voluntary Organisations

This module is about managing in voluntary organisations or what it takes to turn visions into action in these organisations. (20 credits - Level 3)

Managing Volunteers

This module promotes good practice in the management of volunteers. (20 Credits - Level 1)

Mentoring in the Voluntary Sector

This module establishes the differences and explores the commonalities between the roles of coach and mentor and their associated skills. (20 credits - Level 2)

Organisational Change

Research Methods

This modules aims to introduce students to both he theory and practice of research methods (20 credits - Level 1)

Structures in Organisations

This module is designed as an introductory course to organisations and management practice. (20 credits - Level 1)

Supervision of Group Workers

This module is designed to equip those who plan to become group work supervisors to effectively support, develop and monitor the practice of group workers. (20 credits - Level 1)

The Voluntary Sector and the Law

This module introduces the student to some of the key themes in legal theory and to the legal system in England and situates voluntaries within this system. (20 credits- Level 2)

Training and the Voluntary Sector

This module gives an historical perspective on the development of the concepts of training (andragogy) and learning (pedagogy.) (20 credits - Level 1)