Are you a HR or management professional? Hoping to build on your HR skills and broaden your career prospects? Solent’s flexible personnel and development master’s degree provides the ideal route to advance your management career, expanding both your decision making skills and your core personnel and development competencies.
This higher-level course aims to help students develop the skills required to be an effective manager of people in changing employment conditions. Students will have the opportunity to explore a specific personnel issue in depth and develop both operationally and strategically. Through six weekend tuition sessions and online study, students are able to apply their studies to their current employment.
Students are guided as they write a dissertation and are encouraged to choose a topic that draws on their current working environment, enabling them to put knowledge gained into practice in a ‘real-world’ scenario.
The course is ideal for those involved in the management of people at a senior and strategic level and is particularly suited to HR professionals, middle and senior managers, and trade union officials.
The academic team has extensive and wide-ranging industry experience across the business and not-for-profit sectors. Their unique experience informs teaching and learning throughout the course.
A flexible study approach allows students to study around their job, with six classroom-based sessions held on Saturdays.
What does this course lead to?
Course tutors have extensive HR and industry experience, supporting students in translating knowledge into practical skills and real-life scenarios. Our students can choose from a range of dissertation topics best suited to their professional interests.
This course is designed to help graduates fast track their career by aiding with promotions and also preparing them for future senior positions in HR.
Who is this course for?
This master’s degree is aimed at HR professionals who wish to further their career and gain a higher-level academic qualification.
The course content is well-suited to those who are new to management or who are current managers looking to progress into senior management positions.
Web-based learning
Solent’s virtual learning environment provides quick online access to assignments, lecture notes, suggested reading and other course information.
The Student Hub
The Student Hub is a central space where you can access all of the information and support you need during your time at University.
Professional and experienced staff can help resolve any query, and if they cannot answer the question themselves they will find the person who can.
YOUR FUTURE
This master’s course will enhance your career prospects and broaden your opportunities in the HR field. The course has helped many of our graduates to progress to senior HR positions.
Suitable roles for graduates include:
HR
Management
Personnel
Trade union official
The quality of the teaching is exceptional and the support offered by the tutors makes the entire process straightforward. I was recently invited to join another organisation in a more senior position and I attribute this to the learning I have gone through.
David Evans, HR manager
INDUSTRY LINKS
Our tutors have wide-ranging industry experience across the business and not-for-profit sectors, which informs teaching and learning throughout the course.
You will have opportunities to apply your knowledge and skills to real-world scenarios from your workplace.
We invite former students to come in and talk about their study experience and research, which current students learn a lot from.
