Who publishes this site, and who delivers the programmes

Every diploma described on this site is delivered by London School of Planning and Management, an approved centre of OTHM Qualifications and of Qualifi, at Office 7, 35-37 Ludgate Hill, London EC4M 7JN. Either awarding body will confirm its approval, and the awarding bodies page explains how to check it yourself.

Legal name

[LSPM legal entity name], company number [LSPM company number]

Address

Office 7, 35-37 Ludgate Hill, London EC4M 7JN, United Kingdom

Admissions

LSPM's website, +44 (0)20 3868 8831

What an approved centre does

An approved centre is the organisation the awarding body has inspected and licensed to run its qualifications. LSPM registers each learner with OTHM or Qualifi, employs the tutors, teaches the units, sets and marks the assignments against the awarding body's criteria, has that marking checked internally and then by the awarding body's external verifier, and applies for the certificate when the learner has passed. The contract for the course, the fee, the study, the feedback and the certificate are all between you and LSPM. If something goes wrong with any of them, LSPM's own complaints procedure applies, and behind it the awarding body's; the complaints page sets out both routes.

Every page separates three kinds of statement, and the design makes the seams visible.

Facts from the awarding body

Qualification title, Ofqual number, credit value, Total Qualification Time, Guided Learning Hours, unit titles and credits, and the entry requirements. We take these from the published specification and the Ofqual register on the date shown in each article's byline and cite them in the numbered notes at the foot of the page. Where a specification does not state a figure, the page prints "See specification" rather than an estimate of ours.

Facts from LSPM

Fees, durations, intake dates, study modes, timetables and progression agreements. Until LSPM confirms them, these appear as italic slots with a dashed underline, so that a reader can always see what is still to come, and the page tells you to ask LSPM.

Our own editorial

What a diploma is for, whom it suits and whom it does not, how the units fit together, what the top-up route involves and what learners we have referred have told us afterwards. This is opinion, formed by reading specifications closely and by advising applicants, and it is signed by the responsible person. It is not a description of LSPM's internal teaching practice, which we do not observe; where a page touches on sequencing or timetabling it says so and tells you to confirm with LSPM.

The site publishes no testimonials, no completion or employment statistics, no rankings and no university names. Photograph slots carry a caption describing the intended image; any that show premises belong to LSPM and are labelled as such.

People who have built careers without a degree are asked, again and again, whether a Level 6 diploma is one. Much of what they find online answers yes for commercial reasons. We have a commercial interest too, and the honest way to hold it is to answer the question accurately, explain the top-up route that makes a degree reachable from the diploma, and describe LSPM's fourteen Level 6 programmes in enough detail that a reader can rule one in or out without speaking to anybody. If they then speak to us, the conversation starts from the truth, and if the truth is that Level 6 is the wrong level for them, we say so and earn nothing.