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Employment Law Level 7 with CIPD or a PG Cert in Employment Law - views please

Hello All

I would like to study for either of the above named courses.  I am a little concerned about cost of the latter at £2500 having already self funded my Level 5 Cert in HRM for close to £4000 a few years ago....

£2500 seems reasonable given course content as shown in the link https://www2.uea.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught-degree/detail/pg-certificate-employment-law-part-time

Would anybody be willing to cast an eye please over the link and provide a view.  I am particularly keen to hear from those with a heavy complex ER bias and or those in smaller commercial settings with a headcount of less than 500.    I don't know whether to start next September or give it another year to allow Brexit to bed in?

The CIPD Level 7 seems a little dated given some of the course material I can see.  

My desire is not to be an HRD or similar, I want to feel really comfortable with my employment law knowledge and possibly set myself apart from other solid HR Advisor / Business Partner candidates in the local market. 

Thank you so much for your time. 

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  • Hallo and welcome, Rachel

    I’d also highly recommend

    www.northumbria.ac.uk/.../

    - a long way from East Anglia, but an effective programme IMHO, wherever you are located. Flexible between PG cert, diploma and LLM ( it’s all the same course content- just in varying quantities - and good value.

    Can’t speak from any experience of the CIPD material, but doubt you’d get much better.

    However, bear in mind that a postgraduate programme in Law is not quite the same as HRM - it’s a lot more specialised and in a way detached from the rough and tumble of the workaday world, but that’s perhaps inevitable.
  • In reply to David:

    having done my masters at UEA then like David I am also a little biased.
    I also have some bias in lecturing on the CIPD level 7 course in Emp Law.

    Neither are dated and there is no point waiting, especially for Brexit.

    It has to be your choice but David's course is a masters and UEA also offer a masters if you can get onto it.

    You may not aspire to be HRD but it is about what makes you more marketable which IMHO has to be level 7
  • In reply to Peter Stanway:

    Defer completely to Peter’s far wider experience, but just to clarify: the Northumbria course was / probably still is a full Masters but students can opt to do fewer components and leave after just an academic year with the postgrad cert or after two with the diploma ( to which they revert if course work marks including dissertation haven’t reached Masters Degree award standards.
  • In reply to Peter Stanway:

    Thank you very much, I shall look again at the Level 7 providers.