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Overview
Become a more effective manager, and a consistent and confident leader in your workplace.
This PgDip Senior Leader apprenticeship equips you with the skills and knowledge to be an informed and impactful manager, and prepares you to apply your understanding to everyday behaviours in your career.
Before this course, you'll typically be a mid-level or senior manager who monitors and manages the core business and management goals of your organisation.
After this PgDip course, students may choose to continue their apprenticeship studies with our MBA Senior Leadership (Top-Up).
This is a new course and we're finalising the detailed information for this page.
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Entry requirements
September 2025 / January 2025 / May 2025 start
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A second-class honours degree or equivalent, including professional qualifications, not necessarily in a business related subject, plus at least 3 years of work experience at a professional or managerial level. Alternatively, applicants without formal qualifications, but with a minimum of 5 years of management experience, are welcome to apply.
- All applicants to the Senior Leader Apprenticeship course must have an acceptable Level 2 qualification in English and Mathematics. Acceptable qualifications include GCSE with grade C/4 or above and Functional Skills with Pass. Please note that we are not able to accept all kinds of Level 2 qualifications, so if you are unsure whether you have a suitable qualification, please get in touch. If you do not have an acceptable qualification you may be required to take an additional assessment during the application process.
Please get in touch if you're not sure if your undergraduate subject is relevant to this degree.
Equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications will also be considered, such as previous study, employment, voluntary work and training courses, including courses and qualifications you didn't complete. Learn more about our Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).
If you're applying as an international student with a non-UK degree, you’ll need to show you meet the UK entry requirements listed above.
To find out if your non-UK degree or other qualification is accepted, please visit our page for your country and view the UK equivalent of your qualification.
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All applicants will be required to complete a Skills Gap Analysis before completing an application form.
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All applicants will be invited to attend an academic interview and may be asked to submit a portfolio of work or undertake additional assessment.
Course costs and funding
Tuition fees (September 2024 / January 2025 / May 2025 start)
The course fee is shared between the Government and some employers, meaning no cost to you as the degree apprentice. Total tuition fees are £14,000.
Please see our Degree Apprenticeships page for further information.
University of Portsmouth graduates may receive a 20% alumni tuition fee discount.
Fees are subject to annual increase. Read our tuition fees terms and conditions.
You'll be able to pay your fees in instalments. Find out how to pay your tuition fees.
Modules
Each module on this course is worth a certain number of credits. You'll study modules worth the total number of credits needed for this course.
What you'll study
Core modules:
- Strategic Management — 15 credits
- Strategic Leadership & Change — 15 credits
- Risk, Resilience and Crisis Management — 15 credits
- Innovation, Enterprise and Entrepreneurialism — 15 credits
- Financial Management — 15 credits
- Corporate Communications — 15 credits
- Coaching Skills for Leaders — 15 credits
Optional modules:
- Strategic People Management — 15 credits
Changes to course content
We use the best and most current research and professional practice alongside feedback from our students to make sure course content is relevant to your future career or further studies.
Therefore, some course content may change over time to reflect changes in the discipline or industry. If a module doesn't run, we'll let you know as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.
How to apply
How you apply for a degree apprenticeship depends on whether you’re currently employed or not.
How to apply with your current employer
If you’re in full-time employment and would like to do a degree apprenticeship with your current employer, ask them to contact us so we can discuss with them how we can work together.
You might find it useful to share our information for employers page with them.
How to apply with a new employer
If you’re not employed full-time or not working for a company that can fund and support your degree apprenticeship, you'll need to apply for a degree apprenticeship with a company that offers them.
You'll follow their standard recruitment process and we'll assess your academic suitability for the course once you've applied.
We can let you know when there are degree apprenticeship vacancies available with companies we work with – contact us to give us your details.
If you have questions about degree apprenticeships, please get in touch with us.
Admissions terms and conditions
When you accept an offer to study at the University of Portsmouth, you also agree to abide by our Student Contract (which includes the University's relevant policies, rules and regulations). You should read and consider these before you apply.
Finalising this course
All our courses go through a rigorous approval process to make sure they’re of the highest quality. This includes a review by a panel of experts, made up of academic staff and an external academic or professional with specialist knowledge.
This course is in the final stages of this process and is open for applications. If any details of the course or its approval status change after you apply, we’ll let you know as soon as possible and will be here to discuss your options with you.