Postgraduate Diploma in Strategy and Innovation (Part-time)
Differences from 2014/15 to 2020/21
For candidates admitted after 1 October 2009; candidates admitted before this date will be examined according to the regulations in the Examination Regulations 2008
General Regulations
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1. The Executive Committee of the Sa
ïïd Business School shall have the power to grant Postgraduate Diplomas in Strategy and Innovation to candidates who have satisfied the conditions prescribed in this section and any further conditions which the Committee may prescribe by regulation. -
2. The examination for the Postgraduate Diploma shall be under the supervision of the Executive Committee of the Sa
ïïd Business School which shall have power, subject to the approval of the Social Sciences Divisional Board, to make regulations governing the examination. -
3. Candidates may be admitted as students for the Postgraduate Diploma under such conditions as the Committee shall prescribe, provided that before admission candidates shall have satisfied the Committee that they have appropriate educational experience acceptable to the Committee, have relevant professional experience, and are well equipped to enter the proposed course of study.
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4. Any person who has been accepted as a candidate for the Postgraduate Diploma, and who has satisfactorily pursued the course prescribed by the Committee, may be admitted to the examination.
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5. If, for good cause, a student is temporarily unable to carry out their studies, the Programme Director may grant a temporary suspension of status, normally for not less than twelve months at any one time. Applications for suspension of status should be made to the Programme Director concerned, c/o the relevant Graduate Studies Assistant; and will require additional approval from the Director of Graduate Studies. The Programme Director shall grant no more than twelve months of suspension in this way to students following the twelve month version of the programme, and no more than twenty-four months of suspension for students following the twenty-four month version of the programme.
Special Regulations
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1. Candidates must follow a course of instruction in Strategy and Innovation for either
forat least twelve months and not more thanfourteentwenty-four months (open programme), or for at least twenty-four months and not more thantwentyforty-sixeight months (closed company-specific programme). Candidates must complete:-
(a) four courses, and satisfy the examiners in the assessment associated with each course. The four courses are:
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(i) Strategy
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(ii) Innovation Strategy
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(iii) Globalisation and Strategy
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(iv) Strategy in Action
- Details can be found in the course handbook.
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(b) Courses
may(i) to (iii) will each be assessed byoneaor2-hourmorewritten examination. Course (iv) will be assessed by a final integrative written assignment ofthe following: written examinations, individual assignments, and group assignments, subject to the constraint that at least 50 per cent of marks in any course must be assigned to individual work. (c)a project report not exceeding 106,000 wordson a topic agreed by the examiners.Three typewritten/word processed copies of the project reportAssignments must be submittedtoonline, as set out in theChairassessment section ofExaminers forthePostgraduateprogrammeDiplomalearningin Strategy and Innovation, c/o Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxfordplatform, not later than 12 noon on thedatestipulatedin the year in which the written examination is taken. Thesubmission date, which will be published by theCourseProgramme Directorbeforeby the firstMondaymodule of thefirst term in which students commence the courseprogramme. All material submitted for theprojectintegrativereportwritten assignment shall be accompanied by a statement signed by the candidate indicating that it is the candidate’'s own work.
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2. Candidates admitted to the 12-month open programme cannot transfer between the two cohorts admitted each year, nor may they transfer to the 24-month programme. In exceptional circumstances, candidates on the 24-month closed company-specific programme may be permitted to transfer to the 12-month open programme.
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3. Candidates may be examined viva voce on one or more of the written examinations
, assignments,and theprojectintegrativereport. 3.writtenThe examiners may award a distinction for excellence in the whole examinationassignment.-
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antoexaminationsatisfy the Examiners in the assessment of any of the components mayberetakere-examinedoronresubmitnotthe failed assessment once, no more thanonetwelveoccasionmonthswhichaftershallthenormallyfinalbe within one yearmeeting oftheirtheinitialBoardfailureof Examiners, excluding any period of suspension. -
5. With the approval of the Programme Director, a candidate may substitute
coreany of courses (i) to (iii) on the Postgraduate Diploma with core courses from the part-time MBA, the Postgraduate Diploma in AI for Business, the Postgraduate Diploma in Global Business, the Postgraduate Diploma in Organisational Leadership, the Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Strategy, or M.Sc. in Major Programme Management, assuming that core course falls within the permitted registration period for the original Postgraduate Diploma.