New qualification options in logistics and SCMWhen a recession strikes, the best way to insulate your career is to develop your skills and increase your market potential. In recognition of this, two of New Zealand’s longest-standing logistics and supply chain management educators, Massey University and the Logistics Training Group (LTG), are cooperating to offer flexible, distance learning qualification pathways for both full-time and part-time students. The culmination point for these pathways will be the new Massey University Masters in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, which will also accept graduates from the UK Professional Diploma in Logistics and Transport. There has been a long-standing arrangement between the two course providers stretching back to the days when Massey ran the UK Diploma in Logistics which made provision for its graduates to undertake postgraduate programmes. However, this new specialist masters degree provides specific academic recognition for this large industry sector, estimated to contribute about 13 and 15 percent of GDP in New Zealand and Australia respectively. Dr Norman Marr, director of the supply chain programme at Massey University, initially established the UK diploma over a decade ago in recognition of both the military and commercial sectors’ needs for a commercially transportable, applied qualification which recognised ‘prior learning’ and experience. He has recently returned to Massey from the UK and has developed the new masters degree, into which the UK Professional Diploma in Logistics and Transport will feed. This diploma has been developed by the UK Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. The UK Professional Diploma in Logistics and Transport is offered through the LTG in New Zealand and Australia. It is the bridging qualification and approved conduit for students who have significant industry or military experience in the logistics and supply chain sector, but no relevant tertiary qualification. Adequate grades in the diploma plus a postgraduate research paper allow graduates to progress to the one-year masters degree under either full- or part-time study options. The flexibility and benefits these options offer are very important for industry to grasp as they provide real career advancement potential. Frequently, people in logistics, transport and supply chain roles are promoted to management positions by virtue of hands-on experience and their natural ability, but there is no career or qualification pathway planned. Talent can only take one so far, however, then the need for specialist management education and development becomes paramount for career advancement. Currently, most experienced logistics and supply chain managers are not in a position to take three years off work to undertake a full-time undergraduate degree. The Massey–LTG option provides an immediately viable solution for a part-time, distance learning qualification that leads to a relevant masters programme, thus increasing career prospects.
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