The Programme is unique in Oxford, with Professionals arriving in Oxford on a weekly basis from all over the globe.
With the rapidly developing situation regarding Coronavirus (CoVid-19) the Programme and the Department were concerned
about the potential for disruption to international travel meaning that students were left unsure about whether to attend courses.
The safety and well-being of our students and staff is our primary concern and following the supervisory committee meeting,
and with advice from the department and division, we have made the decision to suspend teaching on the Professional Masters Programme.
The Programme is suspending onsite teaching from Monday 16th March 2020 — 4th September 2020
The courses that would have been taught during the above period are:
| Week commencing | Courses |
| 16/03/2020 | Object Oriented Programming (OOP) |
| 23/03/2020 | Things of the Internet (TOI) |
| 23/03/2020 | Software Testing (STE) |
| 30/03/2020 | Project week |
| 20/04/2020 | Concurrency and Distributed Systems (CDS) |
| 20/04/2020 | Forensics (FOR) |
| 27/04/2020 | Database Design (DAT) |
| 27/04/2020 | Security Principles (SPR) |
| 11/05/2020 | Concurrent Programming (CPR) |
| 11/05/2020 | Network Security (NES) |
| 18/05/2020 | Building Information Governance (BIG) |
| 18/05/2020 | Software Engineering Mathematics (SEM) |
| 02/06/2020 | Software Development Management (SDM) |
| 08/06/2020 | Interaction Design (IDE) |
| 08/06/2020 | Security Risk Analysis and Management (RIS) |
| 22/06/2020 | Cloud Computing and Big Data (CLO) |
| 22/06/2020 | Enterprise Architecture (EAR) |
| 29/06/2020 | Security Principles (SPR) |
| 06/07/2020 | Design for Security (DES) |
| 06/07/2020 | Deep Neural Networks (DNN) |
| 13/07/2020 | Cloud Computing and Big Data (CLO) |
| 13/07/2020 | Cloud Security (CLS) |
| 20/07/2020 | Algorithmics (ALG) |
| 20/07/2020 | Understanding and Mitigating Malware (MAL) |
After taking guidance from our Finance team and the University's central finance team it has been agreed that all payments will be refunded.
The Finance team will be working on this over the coming weeks. Payments will be refunded via the method they were paid, card payments can take up to
7 working days to be refunded and BACS payments may take longer.
Capacity for the Project week scheduled for 15th-19th June 2020 has been increased and students booked onto
the Projects week for 30th March - 2nd April have been already added to this week.
We have been working on refactoring some modules to allow for online delivery, whilst retaining the intensive, interactive style of the Programme.
We want to take care to ensure that the updated modules are of equivalent quality to our usual offering. To put it in perspective, it takes approximately a year from concept to delivery to design a new module.
We are planning to run two to three online modules over the summer period (June-August), with more details to follow shortly.
Please note we are currently running online modules for:
| Week commencing | Courses |
| 15/06/2020 | Projects week (2 week course) |
| 22/06/2020 | Concurrent Programming (CPR) |
| 06/07/2020 | Cloud Computing and Big Data (CLO) |
We are currently reviewing the capacity in the timetable and the teaching resources and we will offer additional iterations
of these courses wherever possible. We will give priority bookings to students who had confirmed bookings cancelled due to this suspension of teaching.
For students who had confirmed bookings cancelled due to the suspension of teaching, we will charge at the 2019-20 rate (£2050).
If you book onto a different course as a substitute for a cancelled confirmed booking please let us know so that we are able to charge you the correct rate.
We are now able to offer students the chance to submit an assignment only where they have previously withdrawn on the following courses.
- Software Engineering Mathematics, SEM – release date Friday, 12th June 2020 after 12:00 noon– submission deadline is 12:00 noon Tuesday, 28th July 2020
- Security Principles, SPR – release date, Friday, 19th June 2020 after 12:00 noon – submission deadline is 12:00 noon Tuesday, 4th August 2020
- Interaction Design, IDE – release date, Friday, 26th June 2020 after 12:00 noon – submission deadline is 12:00 noon Tuesday, 11th August 2020
The previous course materials and the new assignment will be available on the times specified above.
If you would like to request to take this option, please contact pro@cs.ac.uk and we will register you directly from the office.
We will be reviewing the situation on a weekly basis and we hope to be able to give everyone as much notice as possible
if we extend the suspension of teaching. At present we plan to give at least a week's notice of any further cancellations.
During this period of suspended teaching we are moving to an 8 week invoice period to give us time to react to any further advice or guidance from the University of Oxford or the UK Government.
