Hi All.
I am considering enrolling for the City and Guilds Licentiateship in Leadership and Management from the CVQO, I have looked at what is involved and I am wondering if any other member of staff have completed this qualification or are in the process of completing this qualification, if so, would they be willing to give any advise?
Regards.
Radioman
Yeap - completed a Graduateship. I personally found the process relatively painless; however, I also know staff who struggled. The hardest part for me was writing off a couple of cadet weekends so as to sit down and give it my undivided attention for a few weekends.
I didn’t use my CVQO Regional Manager at all - but those who did found him a very useful person to bounce ideas off. Likewise, you are able to submit work in advance to Lorraine at CVQO to check it’s at the write standard - I regret not doing this as it would have made a difference to my final modules; but I still passed, so can’t complain too much!
I’ve since supported another staff member through their LCGI and they found it relatively painless too - they just chose a project they were involved in, we went through it with a fine tooth comb to ensure they met the criteria and were explicit enough in showing their planning etc.
All in all, a worthwhile qualification to get - one which some employers really do value - but which also gives a bit of tangible credit to the additional skills you develop as a staff member.
Where can further information be found on this?
I’ve done both the Licentiateship and the Graduateship. For the former, I did the Reflective route which required me to explain how I’d used knowledge gained on OIC in practical situations and was relatively painless - I did pre-submit a section to Lorraine and it was useful as I got some good feedback.
For the Graduateship I took a different route and did a thesis on an issue affecting the cadet forces - this route I preferred as it was more ‘academic’ and required more time to be spent doing research - the thesis was only 2500 words though so not a huge amount of time required to write.
Worthwhile - do it!
I completed the graduateship a few years back and in doing so it opened the door for me to apply for my current job. All for a few hundred pounds and some time devoted to writing it.
Very worthwhile.
I did the Graduatship level and as said, found it uesful as an exercise to review what I have carried out over the years.
I would say dont leave it for the 2 years and do in the last week. :oops:
To write up the findings really only took a few weeks, but there is thinking time as well.
Overall I found it a very useful and it did give me a tick in a box for my real working life.
Ive also thought that there is lots of useful disertations being written and feel that the information should be published similar to accedemia. This can then be peer reviewed and used as policy/information documents to the ATC.
Dear All.
I would like to say thank you to you all for the helpful advise you have given in your replies.
Regards.
Radioman
My background is in academia and I think that would be good. I am hoping to go more into the area of how sports/exercise and constructive activity helps young people (adults too) - the ATC would certainly be a good area for to think about, although I am new and not on to the stage of thinking about qualifications.
Hello, just browsing the forum and this was one of the most interesting and beneficial thread I came across.
I was starting to get depressed at how some people were being dismissive to others over simple things and this post cheered me up so I’d hoped to resurrect it.
I have recently completed one of the new qualifications through CVQO and also found it very beneficial. It was difficult but manageable, inexpensive and makes the massive amount of time dedicated to the cadet forces worth it; just that little bit more. Worth a look - we do the work anyway.