Entrepreneurship in Africa &       Middle East Certificate Course

Timetable: Flexible, currently delivered in partnership with host institutions

Duration: 15 weeks

The number of successful businesses in Africa and the Middle East has risen significantly over the past decade. Success in these sometimes volatile markets with limited resources requires understanding both opportunities and challenges. This course equips young entrepreneurs eager to start businesses in these regions with the necessary tools to succeed. Participants will learn innovative strategies from expert professionals to navigate from challenges to triumphs.

Foundation in Business Certificate Course

Timetable: Flexible, currently delivered in partnership with host institutions

Duration: 15 weeks

The Foundation in Business course prepares students with essential skills for further business studies, private sector advancement, or starting their own ventures. Participants will learn various business components, enhance creative thinking and problem-solving abilities, and improve communication and numeracy skills. This course is ideal for those looking to boost both their academic and practical business knowledge.

International Management Certificate Course 

Timetable: Flexible, currently delivered in partnership with host institutions

Duration: 15 weeks

Management is about more than people. If you interested in empowering others, working towards a fairer world by considering different interests, stakeholders and environmental contexts to facilitate development and innovation, this course is for you. This course will help students communicate better and figure out how to elicit efficiency and productivity. It will also help you to consider the external barriers that people may face within organisations and give you insights as to how to support your workforce.

  Design & Marketing Course

Timetable: Flexible, currently delivered in partnership with host institutions

Duration: 15 weeks

This course will introduce students to the product development lifecycle process, from ideation to reaching the shelf. Moreover, it will familiarise students with marketing techniques to put products on the market. Marketing is not just promotion and advertisement, it is a function that entails product design, branding, pricing, placement, location and promotion. Understanding design and marketing will help students perform well in any organisational position

Leadership & Communication Course 

Timetable: Flexible, currently delivered in partnership with host institutions

Duration:  15 weeks

Understanding what is required to be an effective leader will help you become a better manager but also to inspire and motivate others. All leaders need to strong communication and interpersonal skills to succeed in a professional environment as well in their person lives.

Social Entrepreneurship &         Organisational Structure

Timetable: Flexible, currently delivered in partnership with host institutions

Duration: 15 weeks

The Organisational Behaviour and the Social Enterprise certificates examines major theories of organisational behaviour as a mechanism for managing people at work. Students will explore the implications for managers in enacting work and people management activities. The second part of the module aims to build on the information on the social enterprise and to help students understand why social entrepreneurship is necessary for development.