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Environmental Health
|MSc
| Part Time | Admissions status: Open
Mostly taught by Chartered Environmental Health Practitioners. Environmental health is studied as an integrated approach to health protection and improvement. Intentionally vocational to prepare you for employment in a range of environmental health disciplines.
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KEY BENEFITS
- Graduation permits access to the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) professional exams and subsequent entry into an interesting and rewarding profession.
- Students in London benefit from a healthy demand for Environmental Health Practitioners which is reflected in the availability of paid traineeships and an attachment scheme administered by the CIEH for which a modest bursary is available
- Bulk of the programme’s modules taught by lecturers who themselves are or were practicing Chartered Environmental Health Practitioners.
KEY FACTS
Programme leader/s
Dr Chris Day
Accreditation
This programme is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) and upon the completion of the Institute’s portfolio of work-based learning (the ‘Experiential Learning Portfolio’) and professional examinations leads to the award of the ‘certificate of registration’ to practice as an Environmental Health Practitioner.
Awarding institution
King's College London
Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)
UK 180/ECTS 90
Duration
Usually, Two years PT (but maybe permitted over three or four years P/T
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
Although most graduates from this programme will choose to secure their first post as a qualified Environmental Health Practitioner in a local authority environmental health department working as an enforcement officer, some will decide thereafter to explore opportunities to work in a central government department (e.g. the Department of Health) or government agency (e.g. the Food Standards Agency) or in the health service. In addition, graduates in Environmental Health can be found working in private industry, consultancies, the law and the armed forces. Through further post-graduate study opportunities exist to develop a career path to the highest echelons of local government management, whilst those who choose to develop their careers in the broader field of public health can now aspire to posts at consultant level as directors of public health with primary care trusts through the ‘general specialist’ pathway.
Year of entry 2010
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