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Diploma in Research & Learning
(Dip. RL) - Data Science
Specialisations
Government • National Statistics • Multilateral
Private Sector • Finance • Consulting
NGOs • Development • Food Security
Organisational Database Design & Development
Equips learners to design, build, and manage databases that serve real organisational needs.
Course Focus
Advanced schema design, performance tuning, migration planning, and enterprise data modelling.
Research Strand
Designing databases that embed audit trails and version control for longitudinal research
Specialisation Context
A - Policy
Designing interoperable databases for cross-ministry data sharing and national statistics.
B - Business
Enterprise database architecture for multi-branch organisations and financial institutions.
C — Livelihoods
Multi-site databases for regional development programmes and value chain tracking.
Technical Learning Topics - by Specialisation
- Relational design for government statistical systems
- ER modelling for cross-ministry data sharing
- SQL for national indicator and census data
- Interoperability standards and schema alignment
- Audit trails for public accountability and compliance
- Data migration across government legacy systems
- Version control for regulatory and policy databases
- Open government data publication pipelines
- Backup and recovery for critical national systems
- Stored procedures for automated statistical reporting
Assessment Tasks
Redesign a legacy database to support an organisational research programme with governance controls.
Software & Tools
PostgreSQL, Oracle DB, ERwin, Flyway, GitHub, DBeaver, Google Sheets, MySQL
AI Applications
AI-powered database performance monitoring; automated migration validation tools.