CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma in People Management for School Business Professionals

Overview

  • The Level 7 Advanced Diploma is ideally suited to people professionals wanting to refine their strategic capability and thinking. If you have worked in HR for a number of years and wish to support your experience with a qualification and gain CIPD Chartered Membership, this is the professional development route for you.

  • As well as providing a recognised professional CIPD qualification, the programme helps to acquire a wide range of relevant, practical skills and strategies that can be applied in your school or trust.

  • The programme enables learners to lead on the effectiveness and efficiency of the HR function for which they are responsible, as well as underpin and develop their strategic knowledge, allowing them to add value to their school or trust

  • The programme also enables learners to substantiate their experience and provide professional assurance with an accredited CIPD qualification which can be used to apply for Chartered CIPD status.

Learning Outcomes

The Advanced Diploma is made up 8 units. You will complete all of the following:

Work and Working Lives in a Changing Business Environment

Business Research in People Practice

People Management and Development Strategies for Performance

Resourcing and Talent Management to Sustain Success

Personal Effectiveness Ethics and Business Acumen

Strategic Employment Relations

Strategic Reward Management

Advanced Employment Law in Practice

About the qualification

  • The CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma in People Management for School Business Professionals is designed to:

    • Develop in depth HR and people management knowledge

    • Allow for your school or trusts context to be considered as part of the assignments to ensure that the programme provides practical benefits to both you and your school or trust. This is implemented within MOL’s delivery method and design.

    • Develop strategic knowledge and offer you an opportunity to stand out from your peers.

    • Provide career development opportunities in more strategic positions.

    • Gain you recognition as a qualified professional with a pathway to gaining CIPD Chartered status.

  • The units are delivered via Live Online, which includes live, interactive webinar sessions delivered by an MOL’s industry expert tutor. Where possible, the units will be contextualised especially for SBPs and the education sector.

    You don’t need to worry about an emergency occurring in school (e.g. Ofsted visit) that means you miss a live online session. All live sessions are recorded to enable you to access them on demand and you will also have access to all of the relevant on demand resources for each unit, should you need to.

  • This Advanced Diploma programme is approximately 24 months in length.

    Each module takes around 10 weeks (22 weeks for the Business research in people practice unit) when studied via live online delivery.

    You can expect study between 8-10 hours on average per week during a module. The time spend studying will vary depending on your ability as a learner, your existing knowledge/experience and which unit of the programme you are studying at the time.

  • MOL’s dedicated Customer Experience Team will be in contact prior to the start of the programme to outline how the programme will run and to deal with any queries or concerns you may have at the outset. When your studies commence, they will also proactively contact you to make sure that you are OK, that the course is going well and to gather feedback on your experience of studying with MOL.

    Whilst studying the Level 7 Advanced Diploma, you will attend regular, live webinar sessions offering the opportunity to interact with your tutor and peers. The sessions are designed to be vibrant and engaging and will include elements such as group and paired work, discussion topics, Q&As and interactive polls whilst looking at areas of the CIPD syllabus.

    MOL’s expert tutors are also available to support you whenever you need them. The tutors do not just provide information and advice within the live online, interactive sessions; they are on hand when you need them to provide dedicated support and feedback to guide you in your learning.

  • Although there are no prior entry requirements as such, there is an expectation that you are currently, or progressing to be, working at a strategic level. For individuals who already hold a CIPD Level 5 or are perhaps educated to degree level in Human Resources, CIPD Level 7 is also a natural progression step.

    CIPD Level 7 is the most prestigious qualification you can attain as a HR professional. It’s an Advanced Diploma equivalent to a postgraduate / masters degree and the only level where you can apply for full Chartered CIPD membership. CIPD Level 7 is best suited to senior professionals (for example HR Director in a school / trust) who need to develop and implement high level workplace strategies.

  • There are a number of assessments you’ll need to complete as part of your CIPD Level 7 qualification, some common examples include carrying out detailed analysis based on case studies.

    All units are assessed via essay-based assignments. These assignments are usually 3,000–4,000 words in length, depending on the module.

  • We offer termly start dates for this programme. Upcoming start dates are listed below but generally take place 3 times per academic year in October, January and May.

    We do require a minimum number of SBPs to book onto each intake to ensure that the programme can run as a dedicated contextualised programme for school business professionals. We run a cohort of the Level 7 Diploma on a rolling basis and each term, a new intake of SBPs joins the existing cohort and everyone starts the next unit together.

    It is important to remember that the units have been designed to be completed in any order.

    The benefits of this approach are:

    • Flexibility – we are able to offer multiple start dates for this programme throughout the year.

    • Networking – it allows you to network with a wider range of SBPs as they join the cohort.

    • Support – you can gain insights and receive guidance from the other SBPs on the programme who have already completed some of the units.

  • Yes, CIPD membership is a prerequisite to undertaking any CIPD related qualification. If you do not currently hold CIPD membership then you can order student membership directly through CIPD.

  • There is an ISBL member rate and a non-member rate for all our training programmes. All rates quoted below are inclusive of VAT and per person:

    ISBL member rate: £6,695

    Non-member rate: £7,365

    PLEASE NOTE: The above prices DO NOT include CIPD membership. This needs to be ordered directly through CIPD.


    One of the benefits of being an ISBL member is being able to access the member rates for training and conferences. If you are not a member, you can find out more about joining ISBL by clicking here.

    To be able to access the ISBL member rate, your membership needs to be active before you book your place on the programme.

    The full cost must be paid in full before you start the programme. Our Terms & Conditions can be found here.

Testimonials

  • "I gained a lot from other colleagues. Some of them are already human resource managers, some of them are directors. But talking to them in the sessions, you take a lot of information from them, especially through sharing ideas"

  • "You do have to put your life on hold for a little while, but the outcome of finishing the course and the satisfaction of completion is amazing. So never give up."

Upcoming cohorts and bookings

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please be aware that details cannot be passed on to MOL until full payment is received. Once details are passed on to MOL it can take a week to process information and set delegates up on learning platforms, therefore early and prompt payment and booking are recommended.

Upcoming cohort dates are listed below, click on the specific cohort to be taken to details of how you can book onto the programme:

For any enquiries, please contact: training@isbl.org.uk