Postgraduate Certificate in Mentoring and Coaching

This programme will:

• help you to understand the potential of mentoring and coaching to transform an organisation
• apply the principles of effective mentoring and coaching
• allow you to successfully complete the components of mentoring and coaching
• develop your skills in supporting reflective practice in mentoring and coaching
• encourage you to reflect critically on key areas of theory, empirical research and the values underpinning mentoring and coaching
• analyse how policy at all levels impacts on and interacts with the mentoring and coaching process
• develop you as a strategic thinker, systems manager and innovator.

Features

This programme provides the opportunity to:

• deliver coaching and mentoring informed by current thinking and research
• become a reflective, ethical practitioner in coaching and mentoring
• understand how context can impact on coaching and mentoring
• identify how coaching and mentoring can be most effectively developed in an organisation
• network with and learn from other coaches and mentors.

Who is this programme for?

Practising and aspiring coaches, mentors, consultants and facilitators, and other practitioners and leaders from schools, local authorities, FE, HE or other public sector contexts who are involved in supporting learning and change.

Entry requirements

A good first degree (minimum 2:2 honours) or equivalent qualification. If you do not meet these requirements, you may be asked to write a qualifying essay or critical review. Prior experience in coaching and mentoring is not a requirement.

How are you assessed?

By written assignments (including a 4,000-word synthesis/critical reflection paper with supporting portfolio and 5,000-word organisational report analysing your institution and providing a strategy/implementation plan), plus formative assessment during the face-to-face sessions.

Attendance

Face-to-face evening sessions, plus online activities.

Core modules

• Advancing Coaching And Mentoring Practice In And Across Organisational Contexts
• Coaching And Mentoring Principles, Theory And Application To Practice