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Farms, shops, and engineering firms across generations—British succession, not a generic MBA.
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Succession fails in silence, in unequal siblings, and in a founder who will not let go until a health shock. This MSc starts there, in British legal and cultural context: land, limited companies, and the politics of keeping a name above the door. You will design a conversation architecture and a capability plan, and you will state when the family must instruct licensed advisers. Dual-pathway parity lets a son running night shift in a Fife plant study beside a daughter in an London practice. Identity-checked assessment. Faculty mark whether you can write a board paper that is kind and still true. The award is not an MBA clone and not legal advice. No private-bank or family-office logos. Capstones must not identify living families without consent and anonymisation. You will practise the conversation in which a founder is told that capability, not blood, has to sit in the managing-director chair, and you will document when licensed advisers must enter the room. British land, company, and partnership cultures are treated as distinct without turning the degree into a solicitor qualifying course. Identity-checked assessment applies on campus and online. MSc Family Firm Succession (England) 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 Farms, Firms, and Professional Partnerships through Farms, Firms, and Professional Partnerships; Ownership Vehicles Literacy for Non-Lawyers; Place, Reputation, and Community Obligation; Family Councils, Boards, and Role Confusion; Fairness, Gender, and Non-Family Talent; Mediation Literacy without Therapist Claims, and finish on Writing for Founders and Incoming Generations. 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: Map ownership, roles, and conflict without giving legal advice Design next-generation capability plans that survive founder identity Write anonymised case papers a family board can use 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: British family-enterprise context, governance and conflict, capability and next-gen development, and a supervised succession capstone. Dual pathway. Honest non-advice marketing.
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| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| UOB781 | Farms, Firms, and Professional Partnerships Farms, Firms, and Professional Partnerships (UOB781) is a course on MSc Family Firm Succession (England). It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB782 | Ownership Vehicles Literacy for Non-Lawyers Ownership Vehicles Literacy for Non-Lawyers (UOB782) is a course on MSc Family Firm Succession (England). It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB783 | Place, Reputation, and Community Obligation Place, Reputation, and Community Obligation (UOB783) is a course on MSc Family Firm Succession (England). It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| UOB785 | Family Councils, Boards, and Role Confusion Family Councils, Boards, and Role Confusion (UOB785) is a course on MSc Family Firm Succession (England). It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB786 | Fairness, Gender, and Non-Family Talent Fairness, Gender, and Non-Family Talent (UOB786) is a course on MSc Family Firm Succession (England). It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB787 | Mediation Literacy without Therapist Claims Mediation Literacy without Therapist Claims (UOB787) is a course on MSc Family Firm Succession (England). It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| UOB789 | Next-Gen Development versus Entitlement Next-Gen Development versus Entitlement (UOB789) is a course on MSc Family Firm Succession (England). It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB790 | Export, Cyber, and Professionalisation without Losing the Firm Export, Cyber, and Professionalisation without Losing the Firm (UOB790) is a course on MSc Family Firm Succession (England). It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB791 | Illness, Sudden Death, and Emergency Authority Illness, Sudden Death, and Emergency Authority (UOB791) is a course on MSc Family Firm Succession (England). It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| UOB793 | Anonymisation Ethics for Living Families Anonymisation Ethics for Living Families (UOB793) is a course on MSc Family Firm Succession (England). It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB794 | Research Methods for Family Enterprise Research Methods for Family Enterprise (UOB794) is a course on MSc Family Firm Succession (England). It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB795 | Writing for Founders and Incoming Generations Writing for Founders and Incoming Generations (UOB795) is a course on MSc Family Firm Succession (England). It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
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