MSC Security Sector Management
The following academics at Cranfield University will contribute to and lead the MSc SSM modules
Is This Programme For You?
If you work in any security or development related organisation – as a policymaker or practitioner – or wish to enhance your knowledge and skills based on a relevant first degree, then this programme should be relevant to you.
Benefits of the Programme
A surge in the delivery of international aid programmes and increased calls for capacity-building to be at the heart of global security and development agenda has led to the need for new knowledge and skill-sets required to ‘operationalise’ policy. This course not only helps individuals to acquire those skill-sets but also enables them to apply such skills and knowledge to past and ongoing dilemmas faced by the global community in a range of transitional societies.
This expertise is critical to developing the capacity of both bilateral and multilateral responses to such global challenges, effectively informing policy on security and development and extracting thoughtful lessons from past experiences; lastly it offers individuals and organisations useful tools and methodologies for implementing complex programmes both at the strategic and operational level. This knowledge is key to an area which has enjoyed much conceptual and theoretical development but which has been slower at prescribing practical approaches to implementation.
Post-graduate education and training experiences in this field also support the increased ‘joined up’ activity of government departments, as well as practical measures to a combined subject areas, which – in the past – have been treated independently of each other.
From September 2007, Cranfield University will be offering a unique and innovative programme in Security Sector Management, in the form of a highly acclaimed Cranfield University Masters’ degree. The benefits of this programme are that you can…
- Understand key aspects of the wider security environment and how to design and manage an integrated programme which supports multifaceted strategic objectives
- Take part in project, simulation and research work focusing on current international issues which present challenges for both policymakers and practitioners in this field
- Access and benefit from the knowledge of experts in the industry
- Network with like-minded people
- Enhance your professionalism
Programme Aims
The aims of the MSc are for participants to be able to develop and implement strategic security sector plans and analyze, communicate and evaluate the broader implications for related areas within regional and state frameworks. By the end of the MSc you should be able to:
- Display knowledge of the players, processes and structures across a state’s wider security sector;
- Understand the skill-sets required to implement the effective governance of the national security policy and resources;
- Fully comprehend the way in which national security requirements and development priorities are managed in a mutually supportive way;
- Develop transferable skills in areas such strategic management, project management and risk management;
- Understand and analyse the security sector and the international legal and political environments in which it operates;
- Critically analyse and evaluate strategic national security policy, donor policy and development agenda;
- Plan and implement more sophisticated approaches to good practice and lesson learning techniques;
- Produce coherent and rigorous security sector strategies, programme plans, change management schemes and performance assessment criteria;
- Implement and control national security plans within identified constraints; and
- Critically evaluate scholarly research papers in security sector management.
Programme Options
The programme has the flexibility to be studied as a number of academic qualifications up to Masters’ level. The course options can be studied according to a part-time (Executive) or full-time course agenda.
How to Apply
To apply for the MSc in Security Sector Management please complete the following forms:
Postgraduate Study Reference Request
Additional Requirements For Military Applicants
Information for Prospective Students
Please note: for those applying from outside of the European Union, security clearance can take up to 6 weeks. Application forms need to be submitted by the 30th June 2008 for the September 2008 start.
Funding Programmes
DFID Shared Schorlarship Scheme
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/funding/sharedscholarship.asp
Chevening Scholarship Scheme
http://www.chevening.com/
Marshall Scholarship Scheme
http://www.marshallscholarship.org/
The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission In The UK
http://www.csfp-online.org/hostcountries/uk/sss/index.html
British Council Fellowship Programme
Apply to the British council office in your home country
Offices are listed here:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/home-contact-worldwide.htm
Commonwealth Nassau Fellowship
A scheme for non-white South African students to study in Britain. Preference is given to postgraduate students who have not already obtained a first degree.
Contact: Department for International Development (DfID), 94 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5TL
Alban
The Alban program was created to reinforce the cooperation between the EU and Latin America. It covers both under and post-grad programs in a variety of disciplines/institutions.
http://www.programalban.org/index.php?lg=13
Mideplan
The grant is to finance programmes of high academic excellence, universities which are recognised internationally. The programmes funded must have a minimum of 650 lective hours. WEBPAGE STILL SHOWING 2006 APPLICATION.
http://becas.mideplan.cl/
Fundacion Beca
Return air ticket and insurance for any medical bills.
http://www.fundacionbeca.net/articulos/index.phtml?se=2&ca=19&te=17
Ford International Post-Graduate Scholarship Programme for Indigenous people of Mexico
A scheme for non-white South African students to study in Britain. Preference is given to postgraduate students who have not already obtained a first degree.
http://www.ciesas.edu.mx/ciesas-ford/Intro.htm
Scholarship Database for Studying in the UK
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-funding-your-studies.htm