Security Sector Management (PgDip/ PgCert)

Course Overview

The main focus of the programme being EW in relation to sensor systems requires a good understanding of these systems before going on to consider how to defend them from electronic attack or intercept. *Please note that the MSc Security Sector Management course is currently being reviewed. This may mean some changes for the next academic year. Please check the website for the latest information. By the end of the MSc, students should be able to: Display knowledge of the players, processes and structures across a state-s wider security sector, Understand the skill sets required to implement and manage the effective governance of national security policy and resources, Fully comprehend the way in which national security requirements and development priorities are managed in a mutually supportive way, Develop transferable skills in areas such as strategic management, project, and leadership challenges, Critically analyse and evaluate strategic national security policy, donor policy and the development agenda, Produce workable sector strategies, programme plans, change management schemes and performance assessment criteria, Implement national security plans within identified constraints, Plan, manage, monitor and evaluate projects and programmes in the security and development sector, Programme options: Postgraduate certificate: Requires the completion of Module 1 and 2, plus 4 other modules: Postgraduate diploma: Requires the completion of all modules: Masters of Science: Requires the completion of all modules as well as a 20,000-word research dissertation. This MSc in Security Sector Management (PgDip/ PgCert) programme from Cranfield University is offered as an executive part-time residential course and it is also the intention to launch a blended learning variant of this course, combining residential sessions at either end of the taught phase of the Course with distance learning for the remaining 8 modules. The awards of MSc, PgDip and PgCert would all apply to the blended learning option. Duration, Part-time MSc - up to three years, Part-time PgCert - two years, Part-time PgDip - two years