Have you contacted IOSH directly for information on the course, if it does meet their criteria and what if any are there professional views - I’d give them a call.

Thanks 'freelance'. I have e-mailed a contact in IOSH asking about this.

BTW I have contacted the Uni direct as well. Still awaiting a reply

Hi Hoosier, the university is pukka, been around for eons, but I agree that you need to check the detail. I was trying to give you some confidence in them as an organisation. The devil will be in the detail I am sure rather than any attempt to mislead or misrepresent. p48

Talpidae; the FdSc or foundation degree (or whatever is the equivalent) is accredited by IOSH as giving sucessful candidates the opportunity to obtain GradIOSH status, which is the same as the diploma and nvq (not saying courses are the same but the outcome is). the FdSc gives the candidate credits towards a full degree (240 - I think? - 360 required for a full degree?) I completed the course (two years 13.00-21.00hrs one day per week) a couple of years ago and subsequently went on to do a full degree (BSc Hons) there for another two years afterwards. There were some 'full time' (two days per week!!) students who completed thier full degrees in 3 years. As you say there was a significant amount of 'work based' investigation, study etc, although I am pretty certain there is a minimum attendance level on the course; the classroom sessions were more academia based and as such I felt gave a failry good balance between 'eperience vs qualifications'. one of the benefits for me was the ability to bring either the workplace to the classroom or the classroom to the workplace and to be able to put into practice the stuff that we had been discussing/learning. As Pete48 says the university (it used to be called NEWI) has been around for quite a while. Stuart