BATHE Level 7 Post-Graduate Diploma in CPD for Leadership

This Qualifications have been created to develop CPD (continuing professional development) in Leadership, for those who want to draw from their personal experience and develop their leadership understanding and skills, professionally academically and practically for their personal and professional development. The focus of this qualification is the exploration and practical research into leadership as a subject in order to apply this knowledge into a new environment.

The Level 7 qualification will require Learners to critically evaluate, challenge and synthesise a wide range of current leadership roles, tools, techniques and models. The emphasis placed on current Leadership concepts and models is on those that are relevant to the 21st century business environment and context and goes beyond the normal examination of Anglo-American management models.

• Contemporary Issues Underpinning Leadership in CPD
• Developing Research and CPD
• Effective Communication through CPD

• Critically reflect on issues at the forefront of leadership.
• Understand reflective practice and its implications for personal and professional development.
• Critical reflection on strategies for effective leadership in a broad range of contexts.
• Conduct primary research in the field of leadership.
• Communicate ideas clearly and effectively, and reflect on the importance of communicating in a style
  appropriate to a variety of audiences, in a variety of formats (written, oral, etc.)
• Review, critically evaluate and integrate information from a variety of theories, models and/or
  methods in formal research in a practical manner.
• Apply analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to a range of theoretical and practical scenarios.
• Communicate effectively in oral and written format.
• Evaluate and review how their own skills and work can contribute to leadership in sport and in
• Identify and apply ideas and concepts from one domain to another.

For entry onto the Level 7 Poat-Graduate Diploma in CPD for Leadership qualification, learners must possess:

• Relevant NQF/QCF/RQF Level 6 diploma, First Degree  or equivalent recognised qualification.
• Learner must be 18 years or older at the beginning of the course

English requirements: If a learner is not from a majority English-speaking country must provide evidence of English language competency.

The qualification is designed to be delivered over one academic year 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, online by approved centres only.

All units within this qualification are internally assessed by the centre and externally verified by BATHE. 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. Judgement 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.