Human resources sits at the intersection of law, psychology, and business strategy. This graduate certificate delivers practical HR skills — job design, inclusive recruitment, performance conversations, and grievance procedures — with UK employment law foundations. Ideal for line managers taking HR responsibilities or career switchers entering people operations. Credits stack toward the Mada University for Science & Technology MBA or MA Applied Psychology.
Graduate Certificate in Human Resources is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 9 months, and the credit total is 15. Students move from HR Strategy & Employee Lifecycle through HR Strategy & Employee Lifecycle; Talent Acquisition & Onboarding; Performance & Engagement; UK Employment Law Essentials; HR Capstone Project, and finish on HR Capstone Project.
Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim.
The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Design inclusive recruitment and onboarding processes Conduct performance reviews using evidence-based frameworks Apply UK employment law to common workplace scenarios
Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass.
The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
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