Graduate Diploma

1 Graduate Diploma

 These diploma courses, which may be offered either in colleges or universities, usually give students who have completed the general Bachelor's degree a more specific vocational training and professional qualification. For example, a BA Student may enrol for a Graduate Diploma in Education in order to become a secondary school teacher; a BSc student may take a Graduate Diploma in Food Technology in order to work in the food exporting business; a BEc student may enter a graduate diploma course in Business Management. Most diploma programmers consist of compulsory coursewo­rk and may also require a limited project report or sub-thesis. They generally take one year or eighteen months to complete. Most students, when they have been awarded their diploma, seek employmen t. Some diploma courses are terminal - that is, they do not qualify a student to proceed to a Master's programmers – but some can b e a qualification for admission to Master's degree studies.

2 Ba chelor of Letters (LittB)

This degree is only offered at some universities. It is open to stu­dents who wish to continue with postgraduate studies but do not have Honours degree. The programme, like the Graduate Diploma,­

most often consists of both coursework and a sub-thesis but it may la st for two years. If a student achieves high level results in this course , he is then permitted to continue to an advanced degree. In this way the LittB course can substitute for the Honours year in the Bachelor's degree.

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