Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Studies

Description of the Qualification

This qualification is designed to provide a fundamental platform to aspiring students that want to pursue postgraduate studies in the environment field. The qualification aims at making students competent to do environmental related work and to find practical solutions to current environmental issues. As the earth’s resources are declining and the environment is being increasingly deteriorated by human activities, it is evident that something needs to be done. There is a need to maintain the relationship between human beings and the environment as these two cannot be separated. The imbalance that human beings created in the environment is slowly interfering with their survival and sustenance of life on earth. Issues such as environmental pollution, growing human population, depletion of natural resources, climate change, calamities and disasters are all environmental concerns that need to be addressed.

Environmental protection and conservation is beyond the capacity of one individual, one institution or one government. Hence every citizen of the world needs to be observant and actively participate in guarding the global environment. The qualification will contribute to the national efforts of protecting and managing natural resources, as well as to promote sustainable utilization of natural resources as articulated in Chapter 5 of the Vision 2030 and Article 95 of Namibia’s Constitution. The qualification will further bridge the gap between NQF Level 7 and NQF Level 9 qualifications in the field of environmental studies and set a scene for in-depth analysis of issues pertaining to environmental planning and management as well as the sustainable utilization of natural resources.

Admission / Entry Requirements

Students will be admitted into this qualification if they hold an NQF Level 7 qualification in environmental related studies or NQF Level 7/8 in unrelated fields.

Career opportunities

Employment opportunities may be found in the following public and private entities such as; Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform; Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources; Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and SME Development (a subsection on water relation related); Ministry of Higher Education (subsection on research); NAMWATER, municipalities, mines. Namwater; Nampower; AgriBank; Banks (Green products); Namibia Commission of Research, Science and Technology; Benguela Current Commission; International University of Management; GIZ,UNDP; Environmental Investment Fund; NACSO; IRDNC; CUVECOM; OKACOM.

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