CPD and Lifelong Learning

In addition to our undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, we also offer a number of courses which can contribute to your own continuing professional development (CPD), or can be studied simply for your own interest, which is known as Lifelong Learning (LLL).

Continuing Professional Development

As a professional, you may wish to develop your skills in your particular area after gaining an initial qualification. At QMU, we offer a number of continuing professional development opportunities which are designed to keep you up-to-date with all the latest training in your field.

These include tailored short courses in the form of accredited modules that are offered as; face to face courses, paper-based distance learning courses or e-learning. Some are also described as ‘blended’, in that they will have a face-to-face session at the start, followed by paper or web-based materials.

You do not have to ‘sign up’ for a degree programme to undertake CPD courses/ modules as you can do all these short courses as a matriculated Associate undergraduate or postgraduate student. As an Associate student you have the same access to all of QM student learning and information technology services, as well as support from the course co-ordinators and lecturers. It is also possible to study individual modules from most of our postgraduate degrees.

>>View QMU CPD courses

Bespoke CPD courses

We may also be able to provide some bespoke courses. An exapmle of this is our work with the Legal Ombudsman. Staff in BEAM have won a consortium bid with the University of Northumbria Law School as the lead. The consortium will be providing training to staff of the newly constituted Legal Ombudsman service, who will operate an ombudsman scheme to resolve disputes by customers about legal services. QMU will be providing training on the theory of ombudsman work, complaint handling and dispute resolution. The Univeristy of Northumbria will offer training in the legal aspects of the work.

Lifelong Learning

On a personal basis, you may wish to study something you've never tried before. We offer a number of short courses in various areas which are open to anyone with no prior background in the subject. By taking one of these courses, you may not receive a formal qualification, but you will receive a certificate of attendance. There will be no formal assessment either.

Course fees may vary according to the length of the course and the delivery mode. In other words, some courses may be more expensive depending on the type of learning materials, such as e-learning. Fees are indicated on the individual course pages.

>>View all QMU Lifelong Learning courses

OTHER RELEVANT CPD AND LLL INFORMATION

>>Course outcomes and SCQF points and levels

>>Funding and Costs

>>ILA Scotland

>>Accreditation and Collaboration

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