Poultry Business Management. Harper Adams University

The Poultry Business Management programme will provide a complete pathway from PgC to MSc for poultry meat industry employees who wish to increase their competence and capability with respect to business management theory and practice. The programme will also provide poultry business employers with the opportunity to select appropriate staff for management development through a course of study at postgraduate level which has been designed specifically to meet the needs of the poultry meat sector.

The curriculum has been designed such that it satisfies the generic core knowledge and skills requirements of poultry meat business employers at the PgC stage. It then provides options that cater for the career development needs of individual students, and the needs of their respective employers, by offering wider module choice at the PgD stage. The MSc stage provides the opportunity for students to apply the knowledge and skills gained in the earlier stages to real-world problems in their own work-places. Fundamental to the curriculum design of this postgraduate programme is the principle that learning and the exploration of theory should be tested through practical application in real businesses. The applied nature of the course is valued by poultry meat business employers and the staff that they nominate to be postgraduate students.