This programme is written in accordance with the UK Quality Code for Higher Education. This ensures that all degree level programmes in the UK are delivered appropriately. External examiners play an important role in quality assurance of your programme and you will have the opportunity to discuss the programme with them as well as reading their annual reports which are available on the VLE for your programme. The distinctive features of the FdSc Rescue and Emergency Management course are: The course is unique and the only one of its type currently within the UK. The skills you learn will be transferrable between many different occupations. These include: leadership, communication, decision-making, teamwork, problem solving. The modules are taught by subject matter experts from relevant industries such as the police, fire service, ambulance service and the military. Your tutors have a vast array of industry contacts which can be called upon to assist you with your learning. Training and exercising often takes part with the actual emergency services and so you benefit from working and interacting with your future colleagues. Your tutors want you to succeed and will work closely with you to enable this to occur. Note: the information in this handbook should be read in conjunction with the current edition of the College Handbook which contains student support based information on issues such as finance and studying at HE along with the University’s Student Handbook available here: . Programme Team Programme Leader Mike Rose Mike served 30 years in the UK police service, specialising in search, search and rescue, emergency & contingency planning, major incident management at strategic, tactical and operational levels and disaster victim recovery and identification. He has also been the incident or specialist search and rescue commander for a number of major incidents including crime, missing persons and for flooding and severe weather events over many years. Deployment examples include to floods at Boscastle, Mevagissey, Yealmpton, Ottery St Mary and Zennor, severe weather at Haldon Hill, near Exeter and other locations throughout Devon and Cornwall. Mike also deployed to Thailand in early 2005 to assist the international recovery and identification effort following the Tsunami. He has also worked as far afield as New Zealand and managed large security operations locally and as far away as Scotland. During this time Mike was a Police search adviser (POLSA) and co-ordinator (POLSC) as well as a missing person search manager. Mike was also the Chair of his multi-agency Local Resilience Forum search and rescue and mass
This programme is written in accordance with the UK Quality Code for Higher Education. This ensures that all degree level programmes in the UK are delivered appropriately. External examiners play an important role in quality assurance of your programme and you will have the opportunity to discuss the programme with them as well as reading their annual reports which are available on the VLE for your programme. The distinctive features of the FdSc Rescue and Emergency Management course are: The course is unique and the only one of its type currently within the UK. The skills you learn will be transferrable between many different occupations. These include: leadership, communication, decision-making, teamwork, problem solving. The modules are taught by subject matter experts from relevant industries such as the police, fire service, ambulance service and the military. Your tutors have a vast array of industry contacts which can be called upon to assist you with your learning. Training and exercising often takes part with the actual emergency services and so you benefit from working and interacting with your future colleagues. Your tutors want you to succeed and will work closely with you to enable this to occur. Note: the information in this handbook should be read in conjunction with the current edition of the College Handbook which contains student support based information on issues such as finance and studying at HE along with the University’s Student Handbook available here: . Programme Team Programme Leader Mike Rose Mike served 30 years in the UK police service, specialising in search, search and rescue, emergency & contingency planning, major incident management at strategic, tactical and operational levels and disaster victim recovery and identification. He has also been the incident or specialist search and rescue commander for a number of major incidents including crime, missing persons and for flooding and severe weather events over many years. Deployment examples include to floods at Boscastle, Mevagissey, Yealmpton, Ottery St Mary and Zennor, severe weather at Haldon Hill, near Exeter and other locations throughout Devon and Cornwall. Mike also deployed to Thailand in early 2005 to assist the international recovery and identification effort following the Tsunami. He has also worked as far afield as New Zealand and managed large security operations locally and as far away as Scotland. During this time Mike was a Police search adviser (POLSA) and co-ordinator (POLSC) as well as a missing person search manager. Mike was also the Chair of his multi-agency Local Resilience Forum search and rescue and mass
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