The flagship programme

Executive Certificate in AI Governance

Six practitioner courses and a marked capstone project. Complete them all and the Executive Certificate unlocks automatically — at no extra charge.

Who this programme is for

  • Professionals given responsibility for AI — compliance, risk, legal-adjacent, product, operations
  • Managers and consultants who need to govern AI use credibly, not just talk about it
  • Educators and administrators facing AI policy and integrity questions right now
Required courses6
Learning hours19 (self-paced, lifetime access)
AssessmentPer-course exams (80% pass) + marked capstone
Credential levelExecutive · Distinction available
Programme certificateNo additional cost — unlocks on completion
Bundle price£225 £149 founding price
Full syllabi, published

The six courses

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AI Governance Foundations Practitioner · 3 hrs · £45 £29

Who it's for: Compliance officers, managers given AI responsibility, consultants

Units

  1. Why AI governance exists: harms, incidents, trust
  2. The governance landscape: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, OECD, Singapore Model Framework
  3. Roles and accountability: boards, owners, three lines of defence
  4. The AI lifecycle and where governance attaches
  5. Governance artefacts: policies, registers, model cards, impact assessments
  6. Building a right-sized programme

After this course you can

  • Map the five major frameworks and select those applicable to a given organisation
  • Assign accountability using a three-lines model
  • Name the governance artefact required at each lifecycle stage
  • Scope a proportionate governance programme for an SME or an enterprise

Toolkit included

AI governance programme starter checklist (Excel)

Assessment: 25 questions from a randomised bank, ≥40% scenario-based, 80% pass mark, three attempts. Counts toward 3 certificates.

AI Literacy for Managers Foundation · 3 hrs · £45 £29

Who it's for: Managers who must make decisions about AI without a technical background

Units

  1. How machine learning and large language models work — no mathematics
  2. What AI can and cannot reliably do
  3. Reading vendor claims: benchmarks, demos and marketing
  4. Cost, risk and value: deciding where AI belongs in your operation
  5. Managing teams that use AI
  6. Asking the right questions of technical staff and vendors

After this course you can

  • Explain model behaviour and failure modes in business terms
  • Evaluate an AI vendor claim with a structured question set
  • Identify tasks suited and unsuited to current AI
  • Set team-level rules for AI-assisted work

Toolkit included

Vendor due-diligence question bank — 20 questions (Word)

Assessment: 25 questions from a randomised bank, ≥40% scenario-based, 80% pass mark, three attempts. Counts toward 2 certificates.

AI Risk Assessment in Practice Practitioner · 3 hrs · £45 £29

Who it's for: Risk, compliance and project staff who must produce a real risk assessment

Units

  1. AI risk taxonomies: bias, robustness, privacy, security, misuse, systemic
  2. NIST AI RMF: govern, map, measure, manage — in practice
  3. Risk identification workshops and stakeholder mapping
  4. Scoring: likelihood, severity, proportionality; EU AI Act risk tiers
  5. Treatments and controls
  6. The living register: review cycles, triggers, reporting

After this course you can

  • Classify a system under the EU AI Act risk tiers
  • Run a structured risk identification exercise
  • Produce a scored, treatment-mapped AI risk register
  • Define review triggers and escalation paths

Toolkit included

AI risk register template with scoring model (Excel) — also used in the capstone

Assessment: 25 questions from a randomised bank, ≥40% scenario-based, 80% pass mark, three attempts. Counts toward 2 certificates.

Regulating AI: the EU AI Act and Global Frameworks Practitioner · 3 hrs · £45 £29

Who it's for: Compliance, legal-adjacent, product and policy staff

Units

  1. The EU AI Act: scope, risk tiers, prohibited practices
  2. High-risk obligations: providers versus deployers
  3. General-purpose AI duties and transparency rules
  4. Enforcement timeline and penalties
  5. The rest of the map: UK, US, China, Singapore and APAC
  6. Building one compliance posture across jurisdictions

After this course you can

  • Determine whether and how a system falls under the EU AI Act
  • Distinguish provider from deployer obligations
  • Produce a jurisdictional applicability memo
  • Design a single control set serving multiple regimes

Toolkit included

EU AI Act applicability decision tree and obligations checklist (PDF)

Assessment: 25 questions from a randomised bank, ≥40% scenario-based, 80% pass mark, three attempts. Counts toward 2 certificates.

AI Policy for Organisations Practitioner · 3 hrs · £45 £29

Who it's for: Anyone tasked with writing their organisation’s AI policy

Units

  1. What an AI policy is for — and its three failure modes
  2. Scoping: acceptable use, development and procurement policies
  3. The acceptable-use core: permitted tools, prohibited inputs, verification, disclosure
  4. Procurement and third-party AI clauses
  5. Exceptions, approvals and enforcement
  6. Rollout: training, attestation, review cycle

After this course you can

  • Select the right policy scope for an organisation’s AI maturity
  • Draft an acceptable-use policy from the provided skeleton
  • Embed AI clauses into procurement
  • Design a rollout and attestation plan

Toolkit included

Modular AI policy skeleton with drafting notes (Word)

Assessment: 25 questions from a randomised bank, ≥40% scenario-based, 80% pass mark, three attempts. Counts toward 3 certificates.

Auditing and Assuring AI Systems Practitioner · 3 hrs · £45 £29

Who it's for: Internal audit, QA, consultants and governance leads

Units

  1. Assurance concepts: first, second and third party; certification versus audit
  2. ISO/IEC 42001 AI management systems: structure and auditable clauses
  3. Evidence: documentation review, model cards, logs, test results
  4. Testing the claims: bias and performance evaluation at audit depth
  5. Auditing vendors and procured AI
  6. Reporting: findings, nonconformities, management response

After this course you can

  • Plan a proportionate AI audit
  • Map ISO/IEC 42001 clauses to evidence requests
  • Assess an AI system’s documentation package for completeness
  • Write a findings report with graded nonconformities

Toolkit included

AI audit evidence-request list and findings report template (Word)

Assessment: 25 questions from a randomised bank, ≥40% scenario-based, 80% pass mark, three attempts. Counts toward 2 certificates.

The capstone

Finish by doing the actual job.

An AI Risk Register and Governance Action Plan for a real or realistic organisation (8–12 pages, template provided), marked against a published rubric. Distinction awarded at 85% and above.

The document you submit is the document you take to work: a risk register and action plan your organisation can adopt the same week.

The credential

What the certificate says — and how it's checked.

  • Your verified name, programme title and credential level
  • Learning hours, learning outcomes and assessment method
  • Issue date, unique certificate number and QR verification code
  • Signed by the Academic Director

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