Program Objectives

1. To enable learners to apply analytical and evaluative techniques to business in the private and public sectors.
2. To enhance analytical and evaluative skills relating to business across a number of industries.
3. To develop the learner’s ability to recognize and reflect on the process of personal learning and development which facilitates the enhancement of key personal, sociable, and other transferable skills.
4. To develop the learner’s ability to formulate and use appropriate methodologies and approaches.
5. To ensure the learner understands how to initiate, design, and undertake research, development, or strategic activities that extend or produce a significant change in the field of work or study.
6. To ensure the learner can critically evaluate actions, methods, and results and their short and long-term implications for the field of work or knowledge and its wider context.

Learners completing the OTHM Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice can progress to a university partner to discuss a research proposal for DBA/DProf/Ph.D. or directly into employment in an associated profession.

Selection

The OTHM approved Centre must ensure that learners are enrolled with integrity. Entry to the qualification will be considered on the basis of:

• an up-to-date and comprehensive CV
• submission of a personal statement and
• center interview to assess suitability and potential to achieve
• details of 2 referees or 2 references, one of which should ideally be an academic reference
• ability to demonstrate appropriate links to the practice the proposed research refers to.

Equivalences

OTHM qualifications at RQF Level 8 portray practice skills and competencies that are rated in academic terms as being comparable to Doctoral Degrees and Vocational Qualifications at Level 8.

Qualificaiton Structure

The OTHM Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership consists of 5 mandatory units and 3 optional units making a combined total of 180 credits, 1800 hours Total Qualification Time (TQT) and 900 Guided Learning Hours (GLH) for the completed qualification.

Duration & Delivery

The qualification is designed to be delivered over 18 months academic for full-time study, but it is also flexible in its delivery in order to accommodate part-time and distance learning.

The qualification is delivered face-to-face, through lectures, tutorials, seminars, distance, and online by approved centers only.

Assessment & Verification

All units within this qualification are internally assessed by the center and externally verified by OTHM. The qualifications are criterion referenced, based on the achievement of all the specified learning outcomes.

To achieve a ‘pass’ for a unit, learners must provide evidence to demonstrate that they have fulfilled all the learning outcomes and meet the standards specified by all assessment criteria. Judgment that the learners have successfully fulfilled the assessment criteria is made by the Assessor.

The Assessor should provide an audit trail showing how the judgement of the learners’ overall achievement has been arrived at.