CPD Courses And Short Courses for Inspired Professionals
Challenge yourself, enhance your career prospects and transform your future with a CPD course at the University of Cumbria. It's time to put your passion into professional development and choose a CPD course that is right for you. Choose from flexible online courses, accredited CPD courses and degree top-ups, apprenticeships, university-based short courses and bespoke training options.
Focusing on your continuing professional development has never been more important. The world is changing fast and innovation across every industry is being achieved quicker than ever before. Our CPD and short university courses focus on thought leadership based learning and qualifications across three exceptional career paths: Health, Business and Education.
Choose Your Industry
Whether you are a nurse, midwife, paramedic, allied health professional, healthcare assistant, or perhaps a social worker or psychologist, we have created a unique selection of CPD courses to boost your skills. If you work with young people, in sport and wellbeing, occupational health, or are interested in counselling courses, we have a great selection for you.
Health and Social Care CPD
With flexible study pathways designed to complement the workplace environment, our CPD courses can fit around your lifestyle, allowing you to continuously reflect on, enhance, and apply your learning to your career development. We offer a range of CPD and Professional Qualification courses from short courses covering the fundamentals of project, programme, and business management; to our industry-based leadership programmes. Check out our course pages to find out more about the wide range of CPD opportunities in areas including business, project management, visitor economy and leadership.
Business
Boost your skills through innovative teacher training and education CPD courses that will take your career to the next level.
Achieve Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or the National Qualification for Special Needs Co-ordination (NASC); become BA, PGCE, or MA level qualified; or, carry out research in your field of Education.
Education
Developed in partnership with sector experts these courses are suitable for upland farmers, land managers, advisors and new entrants.
Applied learning is delivered through farm visits, online and in-person tuition, part-time over several weeks. Various start dates throughout the year.
Science and Environment Courses
ONLINE COURSES AND FLEXIBLE LEARNING
Our selection of industry-specific courses offers flexible online learning that results in a CPD qualification. Combine standalone modules when you study part-time to build higher qualifications, such as a postgraduate degree or masters.
Now is your chance to get ahead. Make the most of your time and enjoy a role in a high-performance industry. Whatever path you choose, take your first steps at the University of Cumbria.
Develop your team
At the University of Cumbria, people are at the heart of our organisation.
We want to support you in building great teams and training super-talented individuals.
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APPRENTICESHIPS
Higher Level and Degree Apprenticeships are a great option for people of any age, not just school leavers and young people. Employers benefit from offering a unique opportunity to learn and earn.
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JOIN THE UNIVERSITY IN A KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER PARTNERSHIP
Partner with us to gain access to the knowledge, technology, skills, and expertise our academics, professionals, and technical specialists possess.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships are part-funded by government, and have been helping businesses for the past 40 years to improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge, technology and skills that reside within UK universities.
For more information contact enterprise.services@cumbria.ac.uk or see Knowledge Transfer Partnership guidance