Graduate certificates

PGCert TESOL

TESOL course UK. PGCert TESOL at University of Brigant: 4 assessed courses, 60 credits and 600 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The hours on each course add up to that total. Seminars run online. An Edinburgh campus route is published separately from this online award. This award does not confer a teaching licence, QTS, or GTCS registration.

6 months60 credits

Global Executive MBA (Dual UK/US Pathway)

Designed for high-trajectory executives navigating digital disruption, global supply chain strategy, cross-border corporate finance, and technology innovation.

20 months180 credits

MBA Digital Health & Healthcare Leadership (Dual Award)

Pioneering transatlantic MBA for clinical leaders, health administrators, and health-tech entrepreneurs driving clinical workflow transformation and telemedicine systems.

20 months180 credits

MBA Entrepreneurship & Venture Creation (Dual Award)

Built for founders, innovators, and venture builders. Master venture capital financing, growth marketing, tech commercialisation, and global scaling.

20 months180 credits

Master of Business Administration

A tuition-free online MBA, with a campus route in Edinburgh, built around strategy, finance, and a live organisational brief.

18 months42 credits

Graduate Certificate in Digital Marketing

Focused credential covering SEO, paid media, content strategy, and marketing analytics for career switchers and upskillers.

Graduate Certificate in Human Resources

Focused HR credential covering talent acquisition, performance management, and UK employment law essentials.

Graduate Certificate in Project Management

Focused PMI- and agile-aligned credential covering initiation, planning, risk, stakeholders and hybrid delivery — stackable toward the MSc Project Management.

Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity

Intensive cybersecurity foundations covering network defence, threat analysis, governance and incident response — stackable toward the MSc Cybersecurity.

PGCert RQF/SCQF Mapping and Credit Practice

This nine-month PGCert is for registry, partnership, and programme-design staff who must map UK credit frameworks without lying about listing. University of Brigant teaches RQF and SCQF as distinct instruments: level descriptors, volume, and the politics of ‘equivalence’ claims that collapse under audit. Edinburgh campus or tuition-free online, same identity-checked standard. You will produce a mapping file that states residual risk, not a certificate that pretends Brigant can list you on the SCQF database. Fifteen credits. No Ofqual or SCQF Partnership logos.

PGCert Identity-Checked Assessment (UK Distance)

This nine-month PGCert is for assessment leads who must prove who sat the exam when the student is in a kitchen in Inverness or a flat in Leith. University of Brigant’s dual pathway makes identity-checked assessment a core operation, not a panic plugin. Fifteen credits, Edinburgh or tuition-free online, same standard. You will design policies that are lawful, accessible, and honest about residual impersonation risk. No vendor lock-in as a learning outcome. No spyware framing. Dual-pathway students on this PGCert sit the same protocol-writing assessments whether they can reach Edinburgh or not. Fifteen credits over nine months.

PGCert Storm Continuity and VLE Design

Scottish winters close bridges, cancel trains, and knock power. This nine-month PGCert is for learning-technologists and programme leaders who must keep dual-pathway teaching alive when the Edinburgh campus cannot open. University of Brigant treats VLE design as continuity operations: asynchronous parity, assessment windows, and staff rotas—not a click-training badge. Fifteen credits, campus or tuition-free online, same standard. No LMS vendor logos. You will specify what happens to identity-checked exams and library holds when named storms close the city, without pretending a plugin is a continuity plan.

PGCert Professional Body Liaison Practice

This nine-month PGCert is for partnership and quality staff who write to professional bodies without implying that the University of Brigant has made the student a member. Edinburgh or tuition-free online, fifteen credits, one standard. You will keep liaison logs, map conditions of accreditation as literacy, and refuse logo misuse. Ofqual-facing language appears where qualifications regulation touches PSRBs; you are not Ofqual staff. Capstone is a liaison dossier. Dual-pathway disclosure is mandatory: if a PSRB treats online delivery as a different product, you will say so in the file and in student copy. Fifteen credits, nine months, no borrowed crests.

PGCert Integrity and Generative AI (UK Dual Pathway)

This nine-month PGCert is for module leaders and academic-conduct officers who must mark work in a world of generative models without pretending detection software is a court. University of Brigant’s dual pathway is the test case: same award in Edinburgh and tuition-free online, same authorship rules. Fifteen credits. You will write policies students can follow, design tasks that still assess the person, and stay Ofqual-facing in language without becoming Ofqual staff. No vendor logos. Dual-pathway students sit the same authorship rules in Edinburgh and tuition-free online. Fifteen credits over nine months. This is not a coding bootcamp and not a detector-vendor certificate.

PGCert Library Parity and Off-Campus Licences

Dual-pathway higher education is a lie if the online student cannot read the set text. This nine-month PGCert is for librarians and programme leaders who must map licences, walk-in rights, and reading-list reality. University of Brigant, Edinburgh, fifteen credits, campus or tuition-free online, one standard. You will produce a parity dossier that names what a vendor forbids. No publisher or consortium logos as endorsement. Not a chartership. Dual-pathway students on this PGCert audit real licence clauses. Fifteen credits, nine months, Edinburgh or tuition-free online, one standard.

Graduate Certificate in AI for Managers

A focused credential for managers who must make decisions about AI without becoming engineers — capability and limits, use-case selection, procurement, risk, and change. Stackable toward the MSc Applied AI for Public Services.