Duration: 5 months

Venue: Room 3707, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong

CPD hour: 135 hours

Format: Blended learning programme    
Language: English (online modules) + Cantonese / English (face-to-face sessions)

Fees:
RICS member - $17,000 (early bird rate: $15,000)
Non RICS member - $20,000 (early bird rate: $18,000)

*Please contact Mr Peter Au at +852 2116 9719 or email pau@rics.org if you wish to enjoy the group booking discount

Dates & time:
Session 1 - 11 July
Session 2 - 8 August
Session 3 - 19 September
Session 4 - 10 October
Session 5 - 5 December

All sessions are arranged on Saturday, from 9:30am to 5:30pm.

Course summary

This course accelerates your APC process to become a member of the RICS as a project manager.

In this course, you will be guided in your progress to fulfil the required competencies of the project management pathway. There are 3 learning channels for each core competency; technical training, how demonstrate your competency for assessment and personalized feedback on your summaries of experience from the APC assessors. At the end of the course is a mock interview workshop with the RICS Lisensed Assessor Trainer.

Who is this course for?

This course is suitable for:

• PM APC candidates who want to fast-track their progress. 
• Surveyors from other backgrounds who wish to become chartered as PM members.
• Other professionals in the built environment (e.g. Architects, Engineers and Construction Project Managers) who want to become chartered project managers, by taking the APC pathway to become members of the RICS.

Course structure

Delivered over 5 months, this course outlines the practices and core principles of project management in 6 content modules. Each module covers a competency required by the profession and using a blended style of online study. Through a mixture of learning content and interactive sessions, delegates will gain a thorough grounding of the required technical knowledge of each competency. There will also be a face to face consolidation session in how to demonstrate your knowledge of each competency anda personal feedback from an Assessor on your summary of experience.

Each content module is composed of the following, to support and enhance the learners’ needs in gaining knowledge throughout the course programme.

• E-learning sessions
• Reading material
• Face to Face Sessions
• Case studies 
• Online forum
• End of module quizzes
• Assessor feedback

E-learning sessions
The online technical e-learning sessions provide you with a detailed overview of the principles and methodologies covered within each module. These are created by highly experienced trainers to give the core competencies of Projecet Management practice.

Reading materials 
Further your study and understanding of the methodologies with the directed reading material. Sourced from textbooks and articles, these readings support your development throughout the course programme

Face-to-face sessions
The face to face sessionsconsolidate your learning from the modules. Here you will have a chance to meet the course tutor and to ask any questions directly.

Case studies 
Technical case studies provide you with examples of practice, within these case studies you will be able to practice the theory taught within the module. Your responses will be shared within the online forums.

Online forum
Each module has a dedicated forum to provide you with constant access to your tutor and a shared learning area with fellow delegates. Creating a dedicated learning environment you will be able to partake in topic discussion and share you learning with lots of other people from all over the world.

End of module quizzes
At the end of each module is a short quiz, to check your understanding of the content and to help track your progress.

Summaries of experience for assessor feedback
An assessor will review your summary of experience for each competency and give personalized feedback strengths and weaknesses.

Enquiries

Mr Peter Au,  Tel: 852 2116 9719 / email: pau@rics.org