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Syllabus Change Level 7 in HR?

Marco

Hi all,

A bit of context:

Today I spoke with a salesperson from Avado who was trying to sell me level 5. This came several days after my initial inquiry, during which I researched and realized level 7 was far more worth my time and money. So I asked if they offered Level 7, to which he said CIPD is going to change the syllabus so they are waiting for that to happen before they start offering that level.

My questions are:

A) Is this just somewhat of a clever excuse to justify indefinitely not offering courses at level 7?

B) Or is it true that a change is coming soon, and so it´s best to wait before doing level 7?

My gut tells me A is true because he was shamelessly trying to discourage me to go for Level 7 with reasons such as "it costs >7k" and "it´s for director level". 

What are your thoughts?

Many thanks

Marco

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  • In the past 20 years, CIPD qualifications at the highest level (they haven't always been 7) have changed twice if you extend that to 30 years then it's four times. Are students better qualified now that they were 15 years ago? Probably not, seeing as students back then had to contend with four exams, six assignments in year one, three extremely hard exams in year two plus assignments, another two extremely hard exams in the third year plus assignments plus a lengthy management report. Fast forward to today and we are down to two exams plus assignments, the assignments have always been tough so pretty pointless saying they are harder now. People gaining qualifications now will still have a good HR qualification and to tell the truthy most HR people won't have a scoobies about the qualification that you will study only the one they did! I think it is pretty crazy to do Level 7 without any experience of working in HR at that particular level, £8k per year is a silly amount of money to spend on a course without experience but people still do it thinking they will be "heads and shoulders" above everyone else! Still, if they can afford it or service the debt that is up to them.
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  • In the past 20 years, CIPD qualifications at the highest level (they haven't always been 7) have changed twice if you extend that to 30 years then it's four times. Are students better qualified now that they were 15 years ago? Probably not, seeing as students back then had to contend with four exams, six assignments in year one, three extremely hard exams in year two plus assignments, another two extremely hard exams in the third year plus assignments plus a lengthy management report. Fast forward to today and we are down to two exams plus assignments, the assignments have always been tough so pretty pointless saying they are harder now. People gaining qualifications now will still have a good HR qualification and to tell the truthy most HR people won't have a scoobies about the qualification that you will study only the one they did! I think it is pretty crazy to do Level 7 without any experience of working in HR at that particular level, £8k per year is a silly amount of money to spend on a course without experience but people still do it thinking they will be "heads and shoulders" above everyone else! Still, if they can afford it or service the debt that is up to them.
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