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Postgraduate Diploma in Wildlife Conservation (Recanati-Kaplan)

  • 1. The Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Board, jointly with the Continuing Education Strategic Management Board, shall elect for the supervision of the course a Standing Committee that shall have the power to arrange lectures and other instruction.

  • 2. Candidates must follow for three terms a course of instruction in wildlife conservation.
  • 3. Every candidate will be required to satisfy the examiners in the following:

    • (a) the submission of four written assignments of not more than 2,000 words each, one on each of the modules listed in the Schedule below; and

    • (b) a project report submitted in two phases each of not more than 7,000 words. The project shall be approved by the Standing Committee.

      Work shall be submitted, via the approved online submission system, to the examiners by the dates published in the course handbook at the beginning of the course.

  • 4. Candidates who fail to satisfy the examiners in any part of the examination will be permitted to resubmit work in respect of the part or parts of the examination which they have failed for examination on not more than one occasion. The resubmission may be deferred once but shall normally be within one year of the original failure.

Schedule of Modules

  • (a) Species and Biodiversity Monitoring

  • (b) Population Management

  • (c) Habitat Assessment

  • (d) Human Dimensions of Conservation