Management (Advanced Standing) MA 2023/24 entry
The content of this course for 2023/24 entry is still being updated. The information on these pages relates to 2022/23 entry and is for guidance only. Please revisit this course page for updated information.
Overview
Designed to deepen your knowledge of management as a discipline, and enhance your professional skills, this flexible course allows you to convert your prior learning into a master’s qualification upon successful completion.
Aimed at professional managers with at least two years of professional experience and prior learning to PGDip level, the course covers the production of a research project, developed in collaboration with your employer, which will look to investigate a ‘live’ management issue. This project will cover a written component, as well as a digital artefact, such as a web page, which can allow your findings to be easily shared with your employer and colleagues.
Delivered flexibly by practice focused academics, successful completion of this course can enhance your knowledge of management theories and how to apply them, which could help you to develop as a manager and learn the skills needed to progress in your career.
Why Coventry University?
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COVID-19
The University may deliver certain contact hours and assessments via emerging online technologies and methods across all courses. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are prepared for courses due to start in or after the 2020/2021 academic year to be delivered in a variety of forms. The form of delivery will be determined in accordance with Government and Public Health guidance. Whether on campus or online, our key priority is staff and student safety.
Due to the ongoing restrictions relating to COVID-19, some facilities (including some teaching and learning spaces) and some non-academic offerings (particularly in relation to international experiences), may vary from those advertised and may have reduced availability or restrictions on their use.
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This course is accredited and recognised by the following bodies:
European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)
Coventry Business School are currently active members of The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), Europe’s largest network association in the field of management development.
Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS)
We also currently continue to be an active participant in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS). Our experiences and involvement with these organisations could help to enhance the quality of your educational experience.
Study on campus
If you choose to attend our campus study option, you may be taught through a blend of online learning, timetabled lectures, tutorials and seminars, which could take place face-to-face with other students.
Study 100% online
You can choose to study remotely. You will have timetabled classes, online tutorials and seminars, with all your learning activities available on-demand so that you can learn at the best time and location for you.
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Course information
This course is taught within Coventry Business School, and benefiting from our over 50 years of teaching business degrees, this course is aimed at professional managers, with at least two years of experience, who have prior learning up to PGDip level in a subject which contains relevant management content. Typically, this prior learning will have been delivered by professional bodies such as the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the Chartered Institute of Marketing or the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
You will then work, in collaboration with your employer, to initiate and deliver a project focused on a ‘live’ management issue, which should allow your work to benefit both yourself and your employer, who through a digital artefact should be able to easily disseminate the findings throughout the business.
Alongside the Management Research Project module, you will also study the module Research Management Skills, which will give you the opportunity to learn the skills needed to design the research for the project, to collect the relevant data, and then to analyse it and present your findings.
Modules
In more detail...
If you have two years of management work experience*, and prior learning to a PGDip level, successful completion of this course will see you produce a practice focused research project, allowing you to gain a master’s qualification while developing your skills in problem definition, critical thinking and decision making.
Alongside tackling a ‘live’ management issue, which will give you the opportunity to enhance your practical management and project skills, you will also learn about management as a discipline, and explore how to apply management theory to real-world situations through investigation.
In addition to allowing you to gain a master’s qualification upon successful completion of the course, the course aims to bring real benefits to your employer, who should be able to access and share your findings easily through your digital artefact, which could be a web page or interactive PDF. Alongside the production of this artefact, you will also have the opportunity to develop your communications skills, to help in presenting your findings to invested stakeholders.
Taught by practice focused academics, with experience of management from a practitioner and academic perspective, and designed to be flexible around your work, this course is a great way to try to further develop your management skills through focusing on a relevant and authentic research project.
*Management work experience will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. In order to see if your experience qualifies for this course please contact the PG admissions team using our request information form.
- Learn from practice focused academics, with a range of academic and professional experience
- Benefit from a flexible delivery schedule, with a small number of face-to-face teaching days (usually 3) followed by research project supervision sessions which can be conducted remotely via Skype or a similar platform
- Conduct a relevant project into a ‘live’ management issue, with your recommendations easily shared with your employer through the production of a digital artefact
- Study at Coventry Business School, which was ranked as ‘excellent’ in 2018 by Eduniversal, an annual ranking of business schools in over 150 countries
- Aims to provide a deeper understanding of management theory, and how it can be applied to real problems
The main study themes covered on the course are;
- Management Research Skills: The course aims to develop problem definition and management research skills in designing and applying management research, data collection, data management and analysis methods in order for you to produce a full management research report/dissertation with recommendations.
- Current Management Thinking: Through the supervision of a practice focused academic, the course aims to educate and inform you as a manager, leader and organisational member in original and current thinking about management in support of your own professional management practice.
- Management Practice and Theory: Throughout your time on the course, we aim to develop your critical thinking skills and creative approaches to current management practice and theory.
- Professional Skills Development: The course aims to provide an environment where professional skills can be developed to enhance self-direction, communication, decision-making, innovation, communication and collegiality.
Teaching on the course has been designed to be delivered flexibly, to minimise disruption to you and your employer.
In the first semester, there will usually be two full days of face-to-face teaching, covering induction to the course and an introduction to the methods and skills needed to conduct the course’s research project module, alongside working with others on the course to frame the development of your research problem.
A third full day of attendance is then usually scheduled for the second semester of study, and aims to help to further build support networks with others on the course, and to consolidate the research design after you have submitted your research proposal. A variety of supporting course materials are designed to support and enhance the face-to-face element of the course, which should allow you to direct your study effectively so it fits in with your work.
After submitting your research proposal, you will be allocated a supervisor who will continue to provide you with support as you begin to conduct your research and write your project. This supervision can be conducted face-to-face, or can be conducted remotely via Skype or a similar service, increasing the flexible nature of the course’s teaching schedule
This course will be assessed through the outputs of the modules studied – firstly, through assessment of a research proposal, followed by assessment of a dissertation and a related digital artefact.
The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards the achieving the intended learning outcomes.
On successful completion of the course you will be able to:
- Identify and clearly specify management problems in order to determine the effects that they have upon an organisation.
- Critically review relevant, contemporary academic and practitioner literature relating to management and the organisational context.
- Systematically and creatively execute appropriate research design using selected research methods to ethically examine defined management problems.
- Demonstrate effective management of a project, recognising and adapting to change throughout.
- Effectively and consistently present, evaluate and analyse data in the investigation of management.
- Reach well-researched conclusions and articulated judgements based upon management research, to create a range of recommendations.
Designed for those currently working as professional managers, this course is offered on a 6 month part-time basis only, and is structured to try to minimise disruption to you and your employer.
You will undertake an initial two-day face-to-face session, during which you will be inducted into the programme of study, and introduced to the module on Management Research Skills.
After those two days, there is another full day of attendance at a later date, to help shape the design of your research project after submitting a proposal.
After proposal submission, and during the production of the research project and digital artefact, you will be allocated a supervisor who will continue to provide support through approximately 5 hours of supervision, which can be conducted face-to-face or remotely, via Skype or a similar platform. While producing your research project, you will be expected to conduct a significant amount of self-directed study.
At Coventry Business School in 2018/19, over half of our students were from outside the UK and therefore you will be studying in an internationally connected environment, supported by academic staff drawn from a variety of backgrounds and with a range of international experiences.
Entry Requirements
Fees and funding
2023/24 tuition fees.
For advice and guidance on tuition fees3 and student loans visit our Postgraduate Finance page and see the university's Tuition Fee and Refund Terms and Conditions.
We offer a range of International scholarships to students all over the world. For more information, visit our International Scholarships page.
Tuition fees cover the cost of your teaching, assessments, facilities and support services. There may be additional costs not covered by this fee such as accommodation and living costs, recommended reading books, stationery, printing and re-assessments should you need them.
The following are additional costs not included in the tuition fees:
- Any optional overseas field trips or visits: £400+ per trip.
- Any costs associated with securing, attending or completing a placement (whether in the UK or abroad).
Career prospects
Graduate Immigration Route visa
Based on current information from the UK Government, international students whose study extends beyond summer 2021 may be eligible for a visa under the UK Government’s Graduate Immigration Route, which will enable students to stay and work, or look for work, in the UK at any skill level for up to two (2) years. Check the most up to date guidance available to check your eligibility and any updates from the UK Government before making an application or enrolment decision.
By being designed to build upon your professional expertise, and enhance your knowledge and skills in management, this course aims to give you the opportunity to further your career progression within management roles across a range of sectors.
Focusing on a relevant and authentic research project, upon successful completion of the course, your research could mean that the benefits of the course can be experienced by your employer, who should be able to gain access to the completed project and its recommendations through a digital artefact, such as a website.
Disclaimer
Coventry University together with Coventry University London Campus, CU Coventry, CU London, CU Scarborough and Coventry University Online come together to form part of the Coventry University Group (the “University”) with all degrees awarded by Coventry University.
1Accreditations
The majority of our courses have been formally recognised by professional bodies, which means the courses have been reviewed and tested to ensure they reach a set standard. In some instances, studying on an accredited course can give you additional benefits such as exemptions from professional exams (subject to availability, fees may apply). Accreditations, partnerships, exemptions and memberships shall be renewed in accordance with the relevant bodies’ standard review process and subject to the university maintaining the same high standards of course delivery.
2UK and international opportunities
Please note that we are unable to guarantee any UK or International opportunities (whether required or optional) such as internships, work experience, field trips, conferences, placements or study abroad opportunities and that all such opportunities may be subject to additional costs (which could include, but is not limited to, equipment, materials, bench fees, studio or facilities hire, travel, accommodation and visas), competitive application, availability and/or meeting any applicable travel COVID and visa requirements. To ensure that you fully understand the visa requirements, please contact the International Office.
3Tuition fees
The University will charge the tuition fees that are stated in the above table for the first Academic Year of study. The University will review tuition fees each year. For UK (home) students, if Parliament permit an increase in tuition fees, the University may increase fees for each subsequent year of study in line with any such changes. Note that any increase is expected to be in line with inflation.
For International Students, we may increase fees each year but such increases will be no more than 5% above inflation. If you defer your course start date or have to extend your studies beyond the normal duration of the course (e.g. to repeat a year or resit examinations) the University reserves the right to charge you fees at a higher rate and/or in accordance with any legislative changes during the additional period of study.
4Facilities
Due to COVID-19, some facilities (including some teaching and learning spaces) and some non-academic offerings (particularly in relation to international experiences), may vary from those advertised and may have reduced availability or restrictions on their use.
Student Contract
By accepting your offer of a place and enrolling with us, a Student Contract will be formed between you and the university. The 2023/24 Contract is currently being updated so please revisit this page before submitting your application. The Contract details your rights and the obligations you will be bound by during your time as a student and contains the obligations that the university will owe to you. You should read the Contract before you accept an offer of a place and before you enrol at the university.
