Warwick Launches Innovative Postgraduate Diploma in Local Government Management
Latest press releases48 graduate entrants into local government start on an innovative postgraduate diploma programme on Wednesday 5th February at the University of Warwick's Business School, to prepare them for top jobs in public service. Competition for places on the programme has been intense, and the intake is planned to rise to 100 graduates per year.
The Warwick Diploma is organised by Warwick's Institute of Governance and Public Management (IGPM) and the Local Government Centre (LGC). It forms part of the new national graduate development programme (NGDP) organised by the Employers' Organisation for local government (EO). The EO works to support local authorities in their human resources role, providing expert advice and information on people management and development in local government, and leading the formulation of policy on employer issues. Their role in the NGDP is to provide work placements in local authorities, and a team of individual mentors through the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives.
The Warwick Postgraduate Diploma in Local Government Management requires the students to complete, over 18 months:
6 x 3-day residential modules at Warwick
6 x 3,000 word essays based upon these modules
A dissertation of 8,000 words, based upon an applied research project in their own organisation
Workplace learning assignments in their local authorities.
The focus of the first 3-day module, which starts at Warwick Business School's Executive Teaching Centre on Wednesday, is 'leadership and multi-level governance'. Each module will include intensive lectures, interactive case-studies, group discussions, background readings and self-assessment, with contributions by
Professor John Benington, Director of the Warwick Institute of Governance and Public Management
Dr James Downe, Academic Director of the Diploma, and Local Government Centre, WBS
Professor Jean Hartley, Local Government Centre, WBS
Professor Patrick le Gales, CNRS Paris
Dr Mike McLeod, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER), University of Warwick.
The University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor David VandeLinde, will welcome the participants to Warwick at the opening dinner at Scarman House on Wednesday evening, together with a number of leading local authority chief executives.
Dr James Downe, Academic Director of the Warwick Diploma, said "This is an innovative and rigorously designed management development programme for promising local government managers at the start of their career. The Warwick Diploma will provide the students with the latest international thinking and practice in relation to strategy, leadership, management, innovation and organisational and cultural change, in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors."
The Warwick Diploma is organised by Warwick's Institute of Governance and Public Management (IGPM) and the Local Government Centre (LGC). It forms part of the new national graduate development programme (NGDP) organised by the Employers' Organisation for local government (EO). The EO works to support local authorities in their human resources role, providing expert advice and information on people management and development in local government, and leading the formulation of policy on employer issues. Their role in the NGDP is to provide work placements in local authorities, and a team of individual mentors through the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives.
The Warwick Postgraduate Diploma in Local Government Management requires the students to complete, over 18 months:
The focus of the first 3-day module, which starts at Warwick Business School's Executive Teaching Centre on Wednesday, is 'leadership and multi-level governance'. Each module will include intensive lectures, interactive case-studies, group discussions, background readings and self-assessment, with contributions by
The University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor David VandeLinde, will welcome the participants to Warwick at the opening dinner at Scarman House on Wednesday evening, together with a number of leading local authority chief executives.
Dr James Downe, Academic Director of the Warwick Diploma, said "This is an innovative and rigorously designed management development programme for promising local government managers at the start of their career. The Warwick Diploma will provide the students with the latest international thinking and practice in relation to strategy, leadership, management, innovation and organisational and cultural change, in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors."
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