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A postgraduate diploma is a qualification awarded typically after a bachelor's degree. Countries which award postgraduate diplomas include Australia, India, New Zealand, England and Wales, and the Republic of Ireland. These are similar qualifications but developed independently of each other.

Australia and New Zealand

Some Australian and New Zealand universities offer a postgraduate diploma (PostGradDip). Graduate diplomas are then used for additional studies at an undergraduate level or studies in a new field while the postgraduate diploma indicates graduate-level studies or advanced studies in an already familiar field. A bachelor's degree is typically required, although in some cases an advanced diploma is sufficient. People with extensive experience but without formal qualifications may be admitted, although usually the completion of a graduate certificate is required first.

England and Wales

There are a number of postgraduate diplomas available in England and Wales. This could be a vocational course studied after an academic degree, such as the Legal Practice Course; the resulting diploma allows the student to enter legal vocational training, relevant to either the barrister or solicitor profession. Alternatively, postgraduate diplomas allow a graduate student to study a new academic subject at degree level, but in a short space of time. For example, the law conversion course allows a postgraduate student to squeeze the important components of a three year undergraduate law degree, into only nine months. Postgraduate diplomas that last a year or longer are often considered equivalent to a master's degree. They are typically classified into Distinction, Merit, and Pass, similar to most Master's courses.

A postgraduate diploma is commonly awarded to students who have completed most or all of the courses of a Master's programme, but did not finish the Master's dissertation.

A postgraduate diploma typically represents 120 credits of postgraduate courses (whereas a full Master's degree is usually 180 credits).

Postgraduate Diplomas are usually abbreviated PGDip, PG Dip, PgDip, or PGD.

Compare with: PGCert.

Republic of Ireland

The postgraduate diploma (PGradDip) offered by University of Dublin, Trinity College is of a similar standing to the graduate diploma or higher diploma available in the Republic of Ireland in other colleges and universities. The award is the main postgraduate non-degree award of the college and is offered in a wide variety of disciplines across all faculties.

The postgraduate diploma (Dioplóma Iarchéime in Irish) has been awarded by the Higher Education and Training Awards Council since June 2005 in institutions associated with the council. This is purely a professional type course compared to the graduate diploma it replaced, and is offered in arts, business, engineering, and science initially.

Canada

In Canada, a postgraduate certificate program consists of two to three semesters, which can be completed in less than one year. A Bachelor degree or a diploma is required to be accepted in this type of program. It offers the advantage of not requiring to write a thesis and to focus on a concise subject. It is recommended for students wishing to enhance their professional skills as it concentrates on a more practical application in order to enter the labour market. Depending on the province, the title can vary: Advanced Diploma, Post-Graduate Diploma, Post-Graduate Certification, Post-Baccalaureate or D.E.S.S. (in the Province of Quebec).
Postgraduate Training in Education may refer to:
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The term qualification may refer to:
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A bachelor's degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years.
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A vocation is an occupation, either professional or voluntary, that is carried out more for its altruistic benefit than for income, which might be regarded as a secondary aspect of the vocation,
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Legal Practice Course (LPC) is the vocational stage for becoming a solicitor in England and Wales. The course is the successor to Articles and is more vocational in its syllabus.
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barrister is a lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions which employ a split profession (as opposed to a fused profession) in relation to legal representation. In split professions, the other type of lawyer is the solicitor.
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Postgraduate education (often known in North America as graduate education, and sometimes described as quaternary education) involves studying for degrees or other qualifications for which a first or Bachelor's degree is required, and is normally considered to be part
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Common Professional Examination (CPE) courses (most of which award a diploma and are thus often titled Graduate Diploma in Law or GDL) allow non-law students in England and Wales to convert to law after university (exceptions exist for non-graduates depending on
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In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a bachelor's degree. In the United States, students of higher degrees are known as graduates.
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Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) (Coláiste na Tríonóide in Irish), corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I[1]
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A higher diploma is an academic award in Hong Kong and Ireland. In Hong Kong the award is below the standard of the bachelor's degree, in Ireland it is above the standard of the bachelor's degree.
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