Master of Science in Investment and Financial Risk Management

at Kingston University London - Kingston Hill Campus United Kingdom

Train to become a social worker with this degree, accredited by Social Work England. This course offers hands-on experience of social work and a foundation in ethics, diversity, psychology, sociology, social policy and law. You'll study mental health, disability, adoption, fostering, substance misuse, youth justice, and domestic violence.

You'll learn directly from people with lived experience and teaching consultants currently in practice. We're part of a teaching partnership network with seven local authorities and two voluntary organisations. This means that you will be taught in the classroom by practising social workers who will bring theory to life with their front-line experiences.

We have a wide range of placement opportunities throughout South West London and Surrey, including child care, youth justice, mental health, vulnerable adults settings, schools, drugs and substance misuse services.

You'll be expertly prepared for social work practice with placements in field, residential, day care, hospital, prison and service user-run settings. Placements will be supported by studies of assessment, intervention, evaluation, safeguarding, evidence-based practice, research and law. Employment skills workshops are provided by the partnership to maximise your chances of securing employment within the partnership at graduation.

This degree prepares you for a career in business management, giving you the skills, knowledge, and experience to succeed. It includes hands-on, practical experience through working on real business problems, consultancy projects with real clients and opportunities for internships. You'll also have lots of support to set up your own business too. A personal development programme will help you discover your career ambitions and strengths and prepare you for your next step.

The experiences you'll gain will help you establish a business network and stand out from the crowd when starting your career. You'll learn from academic tutors, senior people, and experts from industry and each other.

You'll also have the flexibility to take exciting module options and additional qualifications to deepen your understanding and expertise.

Working across multiple countries is an everyday reality for most businesses. In an ever-increasing global environment, studying business from an international perspective is a must for today's business graduates. To be successful in business, you need to be capable of operating effectively in a globalised world and to understand the complexities that underpin the factors of internationalisation: connectedness, boundaries, regulations and cultures.

Do you aspire to be a leader and decision-maker in an international business? If so, this course will give you an understanding of business management practices all over the world and prepare you to work in global organisations.

It includes hands-on, practical experience through working on real business problems, consultancy projects with real clients and opportunities for internships. You'll also have lots of support to set up your own business too. A personal development programme will help you discover your career ambitions and strengths and prepare you for your next step.

The experiences you'll gain will help you establish a business network and stand out from the crowd when starting your career. You'll learn from academic tutors, senior people and experts from industry and each other.

Do you crave a management role, but have a first degree in another subject? This is our most popular postgraduate course, offering modules covering a wide selection of topics that equip you with the practical skills you need to excel in management or consultancy. It gives you the opportunity to gain expertise in individual business disciplines without limiting your employment options. You can choose to specialise in an area of business that interests you most. Pathways include entrepreneurship, marketing, or project management. Or, you can stay on the general international business management path.

• This course is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).
• Opportunity to gain a recognised Prince 2 qualification.
• Possibility to participate in a week-long study visit to a foreign business school where you will meet students studying a similar course and undertake visits to local companies.
• Your assessments will reflect real business situations including undertaking a consultancy project with a real business instead of a dissertation. Recent students have worked with General Electric (GE), L'Oreal, Henkel, Kimberly-Clark and Arqiva.
• You'll benefit from an international curriculum and our students come from all over the world to study, so you will finish the course with an international network of contacts.
• Kingston Business School is one of only a few of the 120 UK business schools to be awarded an 'excellent' rating for its teaching quality by the Higher Education Funding Council.

Whether you are looking to advance your career, increase your employability or move internationally, our MBA is the stepping stone towards personal self-development and achieving your individual career goals.

At Kingston Business School we believe that professional success is shaped by honing and developing personal capacity and skills, as well as the academic framework of knowledge. On this MBA you will gain core multi-disciplinary knowledge whilst developing your emotional intelligence, critical leadership and management skills.

Our MBA focuses on the real-life practical application of new skills, knowledge and approaches in order to transform business opportunities, tackle current problems and address future challenges. We nurture dynamic, open-minded thinking that contests existing systems, perceptions and perspectives. Through live consultancy projects and current business challenges embedded into the course we encourage a ‘big picture' approach in order to drive positive change within complex business functions and global environments.

Midwives give care and advice to women and birthing people, and their families throughout pregnancy and the transition to parenthood. This essential role requires scientific knowledge, practical skills, interpersonal skills and empathy, which you'll gain on this course. This course offers a degree and a professional midwifery qualification. You'll graduate ready to enter the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and register as a qualified midwife.

Placements are available in maternity units in hospital and community settings.

Midwifery students not only have the use of the new Simulated Learning and Clinical Skills suite but have a dedicated Midwifery Skills space. This flexible learning space can be adapted to be a home-from-home or hospital environment, enabling students to gain confidence in a variety of settings.

Do you aspire to start your own business? Do you see yourself working as an entrepreneur or an innovation manager? If so, this course is ideal.

You'll gain knowledge of business strategy, project management, start-up creation and growth, and finance and accounting. You'll also practise and implement innovative management, technological change, and entrepreneurship to gain first-hand experience of managing and leading entrepreneurial teams.

Our Marketing Communications and Advertising MSc is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). You will gain a deep knowledge of each marketing communications channel, with a focus on advertising.The course's signature modules – Marketing Communications and Advertising Strategy and Digital Marketing Communications and Analytics – incorporate theoretical and practical elements of marketing communications strategy, digital advertising and campaign planning.

Graduates from this course will be ready to jump into a variety of advertising, communications and digital marketing roles.

• Industry application and critique: on this course you will pitch to a panel of real marketing agency professionals, who will critique your technique as well as your response to the brief. You will learn to use research to become an expert in a given area, and to communicate these findings to others quickly and effectively. You will gain broad and also deep knowledge of each marketing communications channel, with a focus on advertising.
• Contacts in the sector: guest speakers, from marketing directors to media planners, come to Kingston to share up-to-the-minute information from their campaigns with our students. Even the course syllabus itself is designed and refined in consultation with a panel of marketing experts. With easy access to central London, there are plenty of opportunities to build up a network of contacts.
• Career-ready: the work you complete during your masters builds into a portfolio you can be proud to show recruiters.

This course is a combination of two highly successful courses run by the Business School – the Accounting and Finance MSc and the International Business Management MSc. Both have established international reputations for excellence.

The programme is intensive, thorough and challenging, designed to give you the theoretical and practical skills essential for managing today's businesses.

This course is suitable for students who have not studied economics, finance or accountancy at bachelors level, as well as those with previous qualifications and experience.

The Masters of Social Work is a postgraduate intensive qualification that will enable you to become a social worker in two years.

The MSW is accredited by Social Work England (SWE), the professional UK regulator. On successful completion of the programme, you will be eligible to register as a social worker.

You will be taught by social work academics, researchers, expert practitioners and people with lived experience, spanning the range of specialist social work fields. This prepares students to become social workers in their chosen areas of specialist social work practice, equipped with a broad range of theory and evidence.

The course provides transformative learning experiences in a supportive, inclusive environment. It is underpinned by a psycho-social and life-course approach, encouraging critical thinking and anti-discriminatory practice in response to the needs of people and communities.

We have a state of the art innovative skills lab to help you to learn and develop practice skills, preparing you for field learning in your two practice placements.