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    • Sustainable Local Economic Development (LED)
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Postgraduate Courses

ISS postgraduate diploma programmes cater to the needs of young and mid-career professionals who wish to deepen their knowledge in a particular field related to their research or occupation.

The postgraduate diploma programmes are policy-oriented, issue-driven and skill-intensive, and are comprised of coursework with exercises, case studies, and individual and group assignments, usually based on real-life experiences.

Postgraduate courses on offer in 2013

Diploma programme

• Children, Youth and Development (CYD)

Short courses

• Governance, Democratization and Public Policy (GOVC) 
• Universalizing Socioeconomic Security for the Poor (USSC)

ISS/IHS

• Sustainable Local Economic Development (LED)

In 2013 ISS has a postgraduate course which will be offered together with the Institute for Urban Management (IHS) on Sustainable Local Economic Development: Managing multiple stakeholders in small and medium enterprise development.

Managing International Migration (MIM):this programme has been cancelled and will not be on offer anymore.

Application requirements

For information on requirements, dates and fees visit the Prospective students pages on our website.