Regulation XI. DIPLOMA IN INDUSTRIAL STUDIES, AND DIPLOMA IN PROFESSIONAL STUDIES AND DIPLOMA IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (GRADUATE APPRENTICESHIP PATHWAY)

1.

In this Regulation "Department" shall be taken to mean a Department of the University responsible for a programme of which professional training forms a part.

2.

The Diploma in Industrial Studies and the Diploma in Professional Studies . The Diploma in Industrial Studies, Diploma in Professional Studies or the Diploma in Professional Development shall only be awarded in those sandwich or other programmes which have been designated by Senate as programmes in which either the Diploma in Industrial Studies or the Diploma in Professional Studies these awards may be made. The Diploma in Professional Development shall only be awarded in programmes which have been designated by Senate to provide a pathway to a Graduate Apprenticeship.

3.1

Either A Diploma may be awarded to persons who, in the course of having qualified for the Degree of Bachelor, or Master of Engineering, Master of Mathematics, Master of Physics, Master of Chemistry or Master of Computer Science, in designated programmes of the University, shall also have completed professional training in accordance with the following conditions.

3.2

The professional training shall be carried out in locations and organisations which are acceptable to the Department.

3.3

The professional training shall be of at least 45 weeks' duration exclusive of industrial holidays (except when it takes place in an educational organisation, in which case it coincides with the length of the academic year) and it shall be completed before the end of the academic programme.

3.4

The nature of the professional training shall be determined by the Department in collaboration with the organisation within which the training takes place.

3.5

Each student receiving professional training shall be supervised by:

a.        a tutor who shall be a member of the Academic Staff of the Department responsible for his/her programme

b.       an External Tutor who shall be a member of the professional staff of the organisation in which professional training is being carried out, who shall be appointed with the agreement of the Department.

4.1

The assessment of a student's performance in professional training shall derive from the following:

a.        an assessment by the External Tutor in co-operation with the Departmental Tutor of the student's professional training

b.       a dissertation of about 5,000 words, or such other length as may be determined by the Department,or, in the case of the Diploma in Professional Development, a project report, written by the student on a subject or subjects to be given by the Departmental Tutor in consultation with the External Tutor, which will be assessed by the Departmental Tutor in collaboration with the External Tutor and/or an be subject to scrutiny by an External Examiner appointed by the University; students whose professional training takes place in a non-English speaking environment designed to improve their foreign language proficiency may be required by the Department to submit their dissertation in a language other than English.

c.        a progress assessment which will be a report or reports by the student on his/her period of industrial experience and, in the case of the Diploma in Professional Development, based on evidence gathered during the degree programme and periods of industrial experience, assessed by the External Tutor and/or his/her Departmental Tutor in collaboration and in the case of the Diploma in Professional Development, assessed against national industry standards regimes and key skills requirements.

d.       such other exercises as may be decided by a Faculty Board to be appropriate to the professional training in a designated programme of study.

4.2

i.         In order to qualify for the award of a Diploma, a student is required to receive a satisfactory assessment in each part of his/her professional training.

ii.        A student will have the opportunity of endeavouring to remedy an unsatisfactory performance in his/her dissertation or project report or progress assessment (4.1(b) and 4.1(c) above). His/her Departmental Tutor shall stipulate a date by which the amended exercises shall be completed, which shall not be later than the commencement of Final Degree Examinations following the professional training.

 


(remade June 1997 March 2002)