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ISRM/City & Guilds Higher Professional Diploma

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The HPD is a professional qualification that equates to S/NVQ Level 4 or foundation degree level. The City & Guilds/ISRM’s most popular qualification is industry-led and aimed at facilities managers, sports development officers, duty officers, aspiring employees and/or those wishing to take on a management role in the sector.

The distance learning course has been designed to provide you with a flexible approach to your learning, undertaking the units in the order that you wish. You will be supported by tutors who have relevant industrial and academic experience in sport and recreation management. Upon successful completion of the course, and after gaining two years’ qualifying work experience, you can apply to become a full member of the ISRM.

Additional information

Discounts apply to UNISON members.

You will need access to a computer with Internet connection for this course.

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ISRM/City & Guilds Higher Professional Diploma

Benefits

  • Improve your current career prospects.
  • Improve your working practice.
  • Direct route to full membership of ISRM.
  • Producing a marketing plan.
  • Devising health, safety and security policies procedures and practices.
  • Presenting a profit and loss account, balance sheet and cash flow statement.
  • Applying qualitative and quantitative approaches for measuring quality and customer satisfaction through customer feedback, questionnaires, user and non-user surveys, statistics and the use of primary and secondary data.
  • Proposing a plan for a particular event (event management).

Topics include

  • The sport and recreation environment
  • Marketing
  • Managing sport facilities safely
  • Financial management
  • Human resource management
  • Design and technical operations in sport
  • Quality and customer care management
  • Event management
  • Service development and monitoring
  • Managing retail operations
  • Environmental and ethical issues
  • Crowd safety and event control

Entry requirements & Hours of Study

  • You must be 18 years old and should hold a level 3 qualification. Mature students may be admitted through accreditation of prior learning (APL).
  • Before you enrol on the course you should contact the ISRM to check your eligibility. If you already hold some relevant qualifications, they may grant exemptions, at their discretion, for certain units.
  • You should allow 1200 guided learning hours plus additional time to complete the assignments.

Assignments

To gain the full diploma you will need to study twelve units. Each unit is assessed by a final assignment marked by your tutor and moderated by City & Guilds. There is also an opportunity to complete a practice assignment approximately half way through an unit.

Order details

CourseISRM/City & Guilds Higher Professional Diploma
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Student Course Fee - payment in full 		£1115.00
Student Course Fee - 8 monthly instalments £112.88 plus £279.00 deposit

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You will also have to register with the ISRM as a Membership Candidate - this currently costs 190 GBP for two years. There is also a City and Guilds registration fee of 125.00 GBP.

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