Post-Graduate
MBA

Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies

HNC & HND, Edexcel UK courses.

CLC
BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration)
BMA (Bachelor of Marketing Administration)
BSc Business , BSc Management

Certificate and Diploma Courses
Association of Business Executives (ABE)
Certificate (ABE + Internal)
Diploma I
Diploma II
Advanced Diploma
Diplomas and Certificates (LCCI)

• Business Administration
• Business Practice
• Marketing
• Travel & Tourism

MBA  - International Management (Two Year)
 UOL external MBA programme Tuition will be given by Commonwealth Law college, to successful registered students. Student can also study the foundation course before the main degree course.. Subject and University fees details can be seen on www.londonexternal.ac.uk 
 

MBA- University of London

Structure and Syllabus

*Expected to be examined for the first time in 2006.

†Last examination in 2007, except for a resit in 2008

CLC Courses on Offer:

THE Pre MBA (Foundation degree programme)
PGDBA Outlines.

DISSETATION         (top up)             

The course comprises of Four Modules and Submission of Project / Dissertation. On completion of one Module, the applicant is awarded Diploma in Management Studies (DMS), on completion of two Modules is awarded Post Graduate Certificate (PGCert.) and on completion of three Modules is awarded Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip.). Those candidates who complete all the four modules will be awarded the Professional MBA in Executive Business Management. Once the Project / Dissertation is submitted, the candidate will receive the certificate. The Lectures exceed 15 hours each week & in addition, extensive private study is required. If a candidate wishes to follow the MBA programme in a specific area of profession, can do so by obtaining a special exemption from the Academic Director.

PROFESSIONAL Pre MBA PROGRAMME

This programme is mainly suited for serious senior executives requiring to submit Thesis/dissertation amounting to 40,000 words on the following:- Management, Theory & Practice (Compulsory) And / or one of the following subjects

Pre MBA plus (Ten Units plus Project)

The course comprises of Four Modules and Submission of Project / Dissertation. On completion of one Module, the applicant is awarded Diploma in Management Studies (DMS), on completion of two Modules is awarded Post Graduate Certificate (PGCert.) and on completion of three Modules is awarded Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip.). Those candidates who complete all the four modules will be awarded the Professional MBA in Executive Business Management. Once the Project / Dissertation is submitted, the candidate will receive the certificate. The Lectures exceed 15 hours each week & in addition, extensive private study is required. If a candidate wishes to follow the MBA programme in a specific area of profession, can do so by obtaining a special exemption from the Academic Director.
Financial Management
Most operational objectives and organisational performance are measured in financial terms. The ability to design, implement and scrutinise financial plans is a key to managerial competence. The module develops the ability to interpret accounting data and understand the complex operational implications of financial planning and control.

Business Analysis
In order that students are ultimately able to determine policies and strategies within an organisation, it is essential that they have a firm understanding of the characteristics of various environments in which an organisation operates, the favourable or unfavourable effects such environments may have on the organisation's performance and what actions can be taken by an organisation to affect its environments to protect or benefit the organisation.

Operations Management
Understanding the role of the operations function and its impact on the competitiveness of the firm is an important part of any manager's training. Operational issues include designing, acquiring, operating, and maintaining the facilities and processes; purchasing raw materials; controlling and maintaining inventories; and providing the proper labour needed to produce a good or service so that customers' expectations are met.

International Marketing Management
The goal of this course is the enhancement of your understanding of Strategic International Marketing, and SIM'S fundamental importance and contribution to today's businesses and operations of any size. Strategic International Marketing is treated as a necessary continuum of knowledge and activity fundamental to the business and its management activity and not as a form and purpose function.
Course objectives include providing a background in international business and economics, human resources, cultural issues and interrelationships, and business decision processes in product planning, marketing, and organisational planning, structure, goals, and performance.

Business Policy and Planning
Business Policy is often considered a "capstone" course in most MBA programmes. The course is designed for Corporate MBA students and provides these students with an opportunity to integrate their knowledge, skills and experiences into a unified understanding of enterprise strategic management.

Leadership Development
The course emphasises the importance of knowledge and skills in a changing world that managers need to become effective in leading others. The focus is on assessing leadership practices, exploring the power and adventure of learning self-leadership, planning for action-oriented behavioural change, and understanding how leadership can impact individuals, teams, and organisation toward effectively anticipating and adapting to change.

Managerial Economics
This core course analyses business problems in terms of microeconomic principles and methods. You are required to apply economic reasoning to managerial decisions in demand analysis and sales forecasting, production and cost analysis, product pricing, and competitive strategies. Course material integrates economic theory with statistical techniques and concepts from the other business disciplines through a series of case studies and formal reviews of a variety of well-established analytical models.

Entrepreneurship
The entrepreneur is an agent of change in a free market economy and a catalyst for technological progress. In this course, we will study the new venture creation process and explore how entrepreneurs combine innovation with opportunity, convert ideas into business ventures, and manage the growth of an enterprise in highly competitive global markets.

Project Management and Research Methodology
Organisational projects focus on feasibility and implementation, as well as improved efficiency and profit. This module combines organisational and academic interests by equipping students with the methodology to use related knowledge, theory and practice on a live workplace problem-solving assignment.

Management Application Project
The module will enable students to develop the theoretical and practical skills needed to carry out successful consulting projects within organisations, either as an external investigator or as a line manager given a one-off problem-solving task. Investigations of all kinds will be considered including those concerned with providing advice on strategic and tactical options, those concerning the design and development of systems and procedures and those concerning the resolution of practical operational difficulties. The module will enable students to make good use of their individual technical knowledge and skills while working within the constraints of organisational decision-making.

Systems Approach to Strategic Management
This course provides students an opportunity to draw upon previous experiences and learning to apply various business concepts and strategic thinking principles to complex problems and issues in organisational settings. Students address strategic organisational problems and optimisation of the total enterprise. All these things are accomplished through a series of lectures, discussions, and individual and group projects.

Management and Leadership Skills
The Management and Leadership Skills course emphasises the knowledge and skills that managers need to become effective in leading others in a changing world. The focus is on assessing managerial and leadership practices, exploring the power and adventure of learning self-leadership, planning for action-oriented behavioural change, and understanding how leadership can impact individuals, teams, and organisation towards effectively anticipating and adapting to change. This course will develop the participants' knowledge, understanding of and hands-on experience in the basic systems and concepts in business at all levels of management hierarchy. Their organisation benefits from higher levels of corporate professionalism, know-how and innovation created by the programme resulting in better performance standards in the board room, business units and functional areas of the company.

Corporate Finance
The course takes off in two directions. The first direction involves familiarisation with the advanced topics in corporate finance such as cash flow analysis under uncertainty, application of asset pricing theory, capital structure issues, dividend policy, valuation of financial instruments, and understanding of agency theory and financial signalling. The second direction involves case analysis and application of the theoretical concepts we learn to the real world. Optional Module, 10 credit points.

Information Management
Technology is nothing more than the knowledge of how to convert inputs into outputs in order to create functionality. Although a firm is a container for other kinds of knowledge as well (such as its understanding of its customers and its ability to execute administrative routines), technical know-how occupies a special role in its strategy. In order to manage in a post-industrial economy, general managers must understand how technologies are created, copied, protected against imitation, and converted into competitive advantage. In addition, today’s general managers must understand what is new about the “new economy.” Increasingly, both products and processes can be connected to one another via a ubiquitous, standardised, software-enabled digital communications network: the Internet. The cost of transmitting and receiving knowledge is falling toward zero, as is the cost of capturing unprecedented volumes of information from both products and processes. Consequently, you need an intellectual toolkit that helps you manage in an environment where firms and their products or services are embedded in an open network that tends more and more to every element of a truly global economy. The latter half of the course focuses principally on the strategic and managerial challenges posed by network technologies.

Management of Change
This course focuses on the managerial responsibility for the development of the organisation and the diverse technologies that a manager can employ to support organisational improvement. It provides a survey of the organisational literature, culture, values and skills that can be used by the manager, leader, or administrator to influence organisational change. A parallel emphasis will focus on the roles of consultants/facilitators in the organisation's development.

Business Ethics
The general goals of the course are to gain a critical awareness of the strengths and weaknesses of market economies from an ethical point of view and to develop the analytic tools and research skills needed to address contemporary ethical problems in business both from a philosophical and practical stand points. The questions addressed are controversial. Often, thoughtful people of good will can have strongly held opposing views on the issues. There will be the opportunities to review one's positions of representative advocates of one side or the other, but, ultimately, the participants are expected to engage the issue and form their own opinions. The learning in this course will come from the participant's willingness to internalise the issues and from the effort he/she puts into formulating his/her own views so that they can expressed clearly and convincingly in class discussion.

International Business Management
This course shows how the relevant environmental factors and management tools are brought together through internal systems to successfully run an international business. Students are encouraged to network with their colleagues in other countries in order to develop meaningful study and business relationships.

Module in short plus latest
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOR
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT SALES MARKETING MANAGEMENT
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
INTERNATIONAL TRADE MANAGEMENT
CARE MANAGEMENT

BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration) (3 Years Course)

Note: CLC is not teaching BBA and BMA programmes currently.

This is specially designed to provide for a wider area of education in business by an integrated study programme: academic, vocational and work oriented. This gives students greater knowledge and appreciation of subjects and their importance in solving their specific day-to-day business operational problems.

First Year

· Business Management
· Business Law
· Financial Accounting
· Business Communication
· Business Organisation & Administration

Second Year

· Organizational Behaviour
· Business Information System
· Quantitative Methods
· Human Resources Management
· Business Planning & Management Strategy

Third Year

· Retail Management
· Operations Management
· Financial Management
· Introduction to Computer Management
· Business Management Project (Case Study)

BMA (Bachelor of Marketing Administration) (3 Years Course)

This is specially designed to provide for a wider area of education in Marketing Administration by an integrated study plan of academic, vocational and work orientated. This gives students a wide knowledge and appreciation of relevant subjects and their importance in solving their specific day-to-day sales and marketing administration problems.

First Year

· Business Management
· Business Law
· Financial accounting
· Business Communication
· Business Organization & Administration

Second Year

· Organizational Behaviour
· Business Information System
· Quantitative Methods
· Human Resources Management
· Business planning & Management Strategy

Third Year

Marketing Management
Operations Management
Financial Management
International Marketing Management
Marketing Management Project
Pre-MBA Foundation Programme (Three Terms)

This course will be suitable for academically qualified international students who wish to prepare themselves for entry to an MBA degree at a British university.

It is a comprehensive programme of study structured over one academic year and concentrates on the essential pre-requisites of university postgraduate studies. The course develops both academic and applied knowledge in business studies as well as English language and study skills.

On successful completion of the CLC programme, students may progress to a university for a MBA course. CLC will assist students with their applications.

 

BSc in Business  (Three Years)

The study of Business Administration is more than just an understanding of how to manage people, money and customers. To succeed in business you need a breadth of knowledge, vision, a willingness to innovate and the courage to act. By studying the BSc in Business Administration we will enable you to develop skills so that you can think and act strategically and exert influence in the workplace. It will also increase your understanding of how and why modern organisations function the way they do.

Successful managers are required to undertake many different roles. To be ready for these challenges, you will have to acquire an intellectual understanding and a wide variety of personal skills. You will learn new perspectives and be encouraged to think both critically and creatively. Our curriculum will allow you to achieve this, and our on-line environment will provide you the opportunity to work with and learn from students worldwide, with similar aspirations to your own.

Structure & Syllabus

To complete the degree you must study a combination of units and half units that add up to the equivalent of 12 whole units.

You can study for a general BSc Business degree or, by taking listed subjects, you can specialize in:

marketing (options A)
human resource management (options B)
international business (options C)

In all cases the degree awarded on successful completion will be the BSc Business Administration. The different categories are provided only as an aid to students wishing to see the courses needed to pursue particular special interests.

FOUNDATION LEVEL

Two compulsory full unit courses:

Management and the Modern Corporation
Accounting for Management

Four compulsory half unit courses:

Business Analysis and Decision Making
Business Statistics
Business Study Skills and Methods
Management & Communication Skills

ADVANCED LEVEL

One compulsory full unit course:

Strategic Management

AND

Three full unit courses from:

Marketing Management
Human Resource Management (B & C)
Production and Operations Management
Management Information Systems
Management Accounting
One compulsory full unit course:
Modern Business in Comparative Perspective

AND

the Dissertation (one full unit)

AND

Courses to the value of two full units from:

Consumer Behavior (A) ½ unit
European Business (C) ½ unit

Certificate and Diploma Courses (One Year)

ABE - The Association of Business Executives

Business Administration

In itself, this is a globally recognised qualification offering the skills needed in employment or running one’s own business. It is recognised by several other professional bodies for obtaining exemptions from their examinations (CIMA, ACCA, CAT, CIB).

The ABE Diploma or Advanced Diploma is recognised by many universities for entry to their courses at year 2 or 3.

This is a cost effective and speedier option towards obtaining a degree.

ABE Diploma

ABE Advanced Diploma

MBA

MSC

BA (Hons)Yr 3

Professional Qualifications

University

BA (Hons)

Degrees Yr 2

ABE Business Administration

Course Content

Diploma 1

 Economics

Accounting

Organisational Behaviour

Business Communication

Diploma 2

Marketing

Human Resource Management

Quantitative Methods

Managerial Accounting

(Plus one from the following)

Business Law

Systems Analysis

Advanced Diploma

Corporate Strategy

Management Organisation

International Business

And two from

Corporate Finance

Managing the Information Resource

Strategic marketing

Strategic H.R.M.

Course Duration

Each of the above can be taken on an intensive basis in 3/5 months, starting in January or July/September for June or December examinations. They may also be taken on an 8 month basis starting October. The Certificate stage is offered on a 5 month basis.

Entry Qualifications For ABE Courses

Diploma 1 2 ‘A’ Levels

Or equivalent for overseas

Or over 21 yrs old with work experience

Or ABE Certificate

Diploma 2 Diploma 1

Advanced Diploma Business Studies Degree

HND or Non-Business Degree

Or Diploma 2

Note: Competence in English is required before commencing Diploma 1 (IELTS 4.5)

The certificate stage will have to be taken if the requirements for entry to Diploma 1 are not met.(5 months course, open entry)