Press Release by PMForum

We take this opportunity to wish you and your family all of the best over the Festive Season. May you enjoy a healthy and education-rich 2011!

Herewith a press release posted on the PMForum website on 1st December 2010 and emailed to PMForum stakeholders around the world. In response to a request from PMForum's management in America, Cranefield agreed to participate in their PM GiveAways™ Program. Should you wish to access the information directly on the PMForum website, go to www.pmforum.org home-page and click on Breaking News Archives, then select the relevant item dated 1st December 2010.

Happy reading!

Kind regards,

The Cranefield Team

Free Project Management Course  Drawing for Free Graduate Short Course announced by PMForum

Drawing for free registration in online graduate level Project Management Course by Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management announcedfor PMForum's PM GiveAways™ Program.

Dallas, Texas, USA  PMForum has announced that the next project management course registration to be given away through its PM GiveAways™ Program will be for Project Management: Perspective, Planning and Implementation, an online graduate-level short course offered by Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management in South Africa. PMForum's PM GiveAways™ Program, a series of drawings for free project management books, courses, events and software was announced in a breaking news article on 10 July 2010.

Project Management: Perspective, Planning and Implementation is a comprehensive short course covering the fundamental tools and techniques of project management offered by Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management. The course caters to both professional project managers and other professionals who wish to master the essentials of management. This course also serves as the first module in Cranefield's Advanced Diploma learning program, the first module towards the Master's Degree in Project Management. Contents include modules on General Principles of Management; Project Management Overview; the Project Manager, Teams and Organizations; Project Planning, Monitoring and Control; Scope Management; Procurement; Projects Accounts; Resource Planning; and Project Risk Management.

The course is available to any person in any country, and can be started at any time. Materials are dispatched on the next available dispatch date after receipt of the tuition fee (normally within one to two weeks). Regardless of where the student is based, the course should take around two to four months to complete.

A Certificate is awarded at completion.

Winner can use this course as first step in Cranefield's Master's Degree program, or can claim minimum of 24 PDUs for PMP recertification. Regular international price for the course: £575.00 (approx $920 USD). More information about the course can be found on the course webpage. DRAWING for ONE lucky winner will be held on 25 January 2011. For rules and to register, click here.

According to PMForum's Managing Editor, David Pells, “The course offered by Cranefield College is a graduate-level short course and the first step towards their master's degree. I was extremely happy to see their offer, a very valuable prize for anyone considering a master's degree in project management.”

PMForum's PM GiveAways™ Program is based on periodic DRAWINGS for free educational and professional project management products and services. PM GiveAways™ will include project management courses, books, conference passes, software and other valuable items. Drawings will be held at least monthly, with the products and services to be given away announced in breaking news articles ahead of time and on PM GiveAways™ web pages. To learn more or to register for drawings for free project management stuff, visit http://www.pmforum.org/PMGiveAways/PMGiveAways.html.

About Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management.

Cranefield College is registered with the Department of Education (RSA) as a Private Higher Education Institution, and its academic programs are fully accredited. It provides strategy-centered leadership and management education that enables organizations to progress towards a learning culture and performance excellence. The college offers web-based project management short courses, as well as a classroom-based Advanced Diploma, Postgraduate Diploma and Master's Degree in project and programme-based value chain management. More information at www.cranefield.ac.za

About PMForum

PMForum operates www.pmforum.org, the world's first website devoted to professional project management and still one of the most popular online sources of project management news and information. PMForum also produces the monthly PM World Today eJournal where articles, reports and stories about projects and project management around the world can be found; free subscriptions at www.pmworldtoday.net.

SOURCE: PMForum, Inc.

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