Postgraduate Certificate Fashion- Buying and Merchandising

Course summary:

This dynamic course equips students with product, market and consumer insight, an understanding of the supply chain and strong negotiating skills for a career in fashion buying and merchandising.

About:

In 15 weeks of intensive teaching and learning the PG Cert Buying and Merchandising equips students with the relevant skill set to successfully apply for market entry positions in Buying and Merchandising. The course develops vital knowledge of current practice in the UK in addition to professional communication, presentation and negotiation skills.

Great reasons to apply:

• Graduates are equipped to apply for market entry positions in both fashion buying and merchandising departments of retail organisations in 15 weeks.
• Students benefit from LCF's strong links with fashion and buying offices in the UK.
• Recent Graduates have gone on to work for Liberty London, Debenhams, Ralph Lauren, John Lewis, H&M (New York), All Saints. Net A Porter, ASOS, ME + EM, Cosmopolitan (Kazakhstan). Tata Trent (India) and Karen Millen.

Anyone Interested.

Course details:

Postgraduate Certificate Fashion:

Buying and Merchandising is designed for graduates aiming at a first career position in fashion buying or merchandising but who need to supplement their first degree with a more relevant academic qualification. The course may also be suitable as a preparation for higher level postgraduate study in related subject areas.

The Postgraduate Certificate Fashion:

Buying and Merchandising course is based at High Holborn, adjacent to Lincoln's Inn Fields. Other green spaces in the area include Gray's Inn Gardens and Coram's Fields. Situated nearby are Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, the Foundling Museum in Brunswick Square, and the British Museum in Bloomsbury. Markets worth visiting are the weekday lunchtime markets in Leather Lane and Exmouth Market. Covent Garden, with its numerous shops, bars and restaurants, the Royal Opera House and many of the West End's theatres, is a ten minute walk away. The John Prince's Street site, with the library, Oxford Street and Regent Street, is two tube stops along the Central line.

Course structure:

• Weeks 1-10 - level 7 - 40 credits
• Buying and Merchandising (20 credits)
• Marketing and Supply Chain Management (20 credits)
• Weeks 11-15 - level 7 - 20 credits
• Integrated Project (20 credits)

Fees & Funding:

• Home / EU fee

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