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Gulf talent strategy fails when localisation is a colour on a vendor slide. This degree treats quotas, sponsorship, and professional recognition as a single workforce system. You will map which roles can be localised without fake titles, how family enterprises hide expatriate decision rights, and why attestation of overseas HR certificates is not evaluation of skill. Vision 2030 and peer GCC programmes are operating calendars: giga-projects, female labour participation, and oil-to-services shifts. You will write a bilingual workforce memo that survives a labour inspection narrative without claiming you are the inspector, and you will design manager training that does not insult Arabic-medium graduates. The award is academic. It is not SHRM, not a government secondment, and not AU/UN youth-employment branding. It is for planners who must keep localisation honest when recruitment marketing has already promised a nationalisation percentage. You will model a localisation pathway for a family firm that still hides decisions with expatriate titles, write a bilingual job advert that does not invent a licence, and interrogate a quota dashboard for incentive-to-lie. GCC medicals and sponsorship artefacts appear as workforce constraints, not as immigration practice. Tuition-free online. No CIPD, ministry, or LAS logos in photography. MSc Gulf Talent, Localisation and Workforce Planning is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from GCC Labour Supply and Quota Instruments through GCC Labour Supply and Quota Instruments; Job Architecture without Fake Titles; Female Participation and Stay-in-Post Design; Family Enterprise Decision Rights; Sponsorship Files and Mobility Risk; Attestation versus Evaluation of HR Credentials, and finish on Writing for Boards and Labour Narratives. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Model a localisation pathway without fake job titles Write EN+AR workforce memos a board can fund Separate attestation of HR certificates from skill evaluation Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
Thirty-six credits: labour-market maths, localisation design, bilingual HR files, and a workforce capstone. Tuition-free online. No CIPD/ministry logo photography.
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| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| ALU1701 | GCC Labour Supply and Quota Instruments Students name the methods used in this subject and apply one of them to a short case. The module is GCC Labour Supply and Quota Instruments.
| 3 |
| ALU1702 | Job Architecture without Fake Titles Students compare two cases and explain why the outcomes differed. The module is Job Architecture without Fake Titles.
| 3 |
| ALU1703 | Female Participation and Stay-in-Post Design Students produce a professional artefact, with sources and a review of its weaknesses. The module is Female Participation and Stay-in-Post Design.
| 3 |
| ALU1704 | Oil-to-Services Skill Shifts Students complete a supervised project and defend the method and the result. The module is Oil-to-Services Skill Shifts.
| 3 |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| ALU1705 | Family Enterprise Decision Rights Students name the methods used in this subject and apply one of them to a short case. The module is Family Enterprise Decision Rights.
| 3 |
| ALU1706 | Sponsorship Files and Mobility Risk Students compare two cases and explain why the outcomes differed. The module is Sponsorship Files and Mobility Risk.
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| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| ALU1709 | EN+AR Job Adverts and Offer Files Students name the methods used in this subject and apply one of them to a short case. The module is EN+AR Job Adverts and Offer Files.
| 3 |
| ALU1710 | Vision 2030 Calendars as Workforce Constraints Students compare two cases and explain why the outcomes differed. The module is Vision 2030 Calendars as Workforce Constraints.
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| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| ALU1713 | Workforce Scenario Modelling Students name the methods used in this subject and apply one of them to a short case. The module is Workforce Scenario Modelling.
| 3 |
| ALU1714 | HR Research Methods (Non-Licensed) Students compare two cases and explain why the outcomes differed. The module is HR Research Methods (Non-Licensed).
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Modules are assessed through a published mix of coursework, applied projects, and examinations. Exam windows are announced in advance so students in other time zones are not forced into overnight sittings. Alternative arrangements are available where documented.
The published duration is 18 months. Teaching language: English and Arabic (bilingual assessment; academic Arabic required for AR-medium tracks). Actual time-to-complete depends on mode and any recognised prior learning.
This is a fully online award. You study from your country. No student visa and no campus relocation are required.
Degree tuition for this award is published as £0 / tuition-free on the online pathway. Examination or administrative fees may apply at checkout — never an annual tuition invoice. Check the Fees page for any extras.
Requirements are grouped on this page (academic, English, documents). Equivalent qualifications are considered. English may be waived after prior English-medium study.
Assessment is typically a mix of coursework, projects, and examinations. Doctoral awards include a thesis or dissertation and an oral examination. Details sit in the programme specification and module outlines.
Recognition of the award for local employment, professional licence, or ministry attestation is decided by your employer or regulator. Arab Leadership University publishes verification pages for certificates. We do not claim automatic equivalence in every country.
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| ALU1707 | Attestation versus Evaluation of HR Credentials Students produce a professional artefact, with sources and a review of its weaknesses. The module is Attestation versus Evaluation of HR Credentials.
| 3 |
| ALU1708 | Manager Capability versus Headcount Theatre Students complete a supervised project and defend the method and the result. The module is Manager Capability versus Headcount Theatre.
| 3 |
| 3 |
| ALU1711 | Ethics of Nationality Counting Students produce a professional artefact, with sources and a review of its weaknesses. The module is Ethics of Nationality Counting.
| 3 |
| ALU1712 | No CIPD/Ministry Logo Claims Students complete a supervised project and defend the method and the result. The module is No CIPD/Ministry Logo Claims.
| 3 |
| 3 |
| ALU1715 | Writing for Boards and Labour Narratives Students produce a professional artefact, with sources and a review of its weaknesses. The module is Writing for Boards and Labour Narratives.
| 3 |
| ALU1716 | Capstone: Localisation Workforce File Students complete a supervised project and defend the method and the result. The module is Capstone: Localisation Workforce File.
| 3 |