入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求：Applicants should have a good first degree (minimum 2:1 or equivalent), and 1 year's work experience in a relevant area. Typical degree subjects of applicants entering the programme include human resource management and development, education, development studies, economics, business, public administration and more generally humanities and social sciences.
英语要求：an IELTS Test score of 7.0 or more overall with a minimum writing score of 7
学费 Tuition Fee：2011/2012 £12,300
课程特征 Course Features：
The MSC in HRD enables participants to critically understand the role of human resource development in enhancing performance within their own institutions and societies. Emphasis is placed on how HRD can support economic and social advancement by improving public services, and in building capabilities within individuals, organisations and communities to effectively cope with change. The programme aims to develop students' critical appreciation of globalisation processes, policy initiatives and development management plans to support skills development and human capabilities, including development issues associated with human well being and managing inequality.
The objectives are that, by the end of the programme, participants will have:
•knowledge and understanding of the linkage between international development and HRD practices and policies;
•knowledge of globalisation and cross-cultural factors affecting the application of HRD theories and methods in developing, transitional and newly industrialised countries;
•knowledge of how approaches to national human resource development affect organisation and societal performance in developing and transitional economies
•knowledge of how new approaches to human resource development affect the context for competence and performance enhancement in organisations and societies;
•an understanding of how to analyse and design HRD strategies at societal and organisational level
•an understanding of their own learning and management skills and how they may be improved.
The programme is designed for individuals of any professional background in international organisations, public administration, transnational organisations and private sector companies who are involved in the HRD and capacity planning aspects of organisations in developing and transitional countries. These may include managers of HRD/training/learning, HRD and education planning in government administration; direct trainers, staff of training centres, consultants involved in change projects, consultants involved in community development; NGO managers and line managers concerned with the development of their staff.
课程内容 Course Content ：
Students typically four core modules over two semesters, and select an additional four modules.
Typical core course units include:
•Human Resource Development: Key Concepts
•Human Resource Development: Strategy and Methods
•Organisation Development
•Private Sector Management and Development
Four optional units are also chosen from a range which may include:
•Civil Society and Public Action
•Citizen led Development
•Development Practice: International Contexts and Worlds of Action
•Gender and Development
•Industrial Competitiveness
•Information Technologies and Human Resources
•International Management
•Learning, Training and Development
•Managing Quality in Development
•Organisational Behaviour
•Organisational Change Strategies
•Politics and Development
•Public Sector Reform and Management
•Transformation in the World Economy
•Work and Employment in Global Economy
其他 Other：
Career opportunities
Participants who successfully complete the HRD programme go on to pursue careers in the public sector and government administration, the enterprise sector, education, training and development consultancy and also NGO management. The programme especially encourages understanding of institutional HRD practices within the context of globalisation and international development.
IDPM has a large and diverse postgraduate population, including a large number of students from outside the UK (85% of our students are drawn from outside the UK, particularly from Africa, Asia and Western Europe, but also reaching out to Latin America, the Middle East, North America and the Pacific). Many of our alumni have gone on to prestigious careers in the public service or in the NGO/charitable and private sectors, as policy officers, managers, consultants or development practitioners - while others have pursued further academic study leading to a PhD and academic careers. Since its foundation, IDPM has trained over 7000 individuals from 170 different countries.