The National Outsourcing Association’s (NOA) Diploma in Strategic Global Outsourcing, accredited by Middlesex University, is now open for autumn registration.

Provided by the NOA’s professional development arm NOA Pathway and developed in association with True North, a leading UK learning and development company, the Diploma was specifically designed to raise industry standards by establishing an industry-wide benchmark for quality in outsourcing.

It is open to experienced candidates with a minimum of 10 years’ organisational experience and five years within outsourcing specifically.

Running in its second year, the Diploma was last month awarded to its first graduate, and is helping raise industry standards and drive outsourcing as a professionally recognised career.

The Diploma, which is a postgraduate level programme, is research-based, enabling candidates to select a specific area of study according to their particular area of interest or professional business needs.

By allowing participants to focus on their own organisational agenda, the programme will help them overcome specific outsourcing challenges, so they can effectively achieve their business goals and directly add value to their organisations.

The Diploma comprises three modules, each taking three months to complete. Each module features a one-day workshop which involves all participants to facilitate knowledge-sharing and group learning from a range of outsourcing experts.

All candidates undertaking the course will form learning sets to provide each other with support and contribute to each other’s learning. Each candidate will also have his/her own personal tutor to provide phone-based and online support throughout the nine-month course of study.

For further information or to register for he NOA Diploma programme please call 0845 130 5500, or email contact@noapathway.co.uk