UNIVERSITY OF YORK, CPD CENTRE

The University of York has been involved in the provision of Continuing Professional Development for over twenty years and is renowned as an excellent provider of executive level CPD courses.

The University's CPD portfolio is developed directly from the world class research and knowledge base at the University and provides delegates with a unique opportunity to gain access to a wide range of influential research activities and cutting edge technologies.

The University of York is one of the UK's most successful universities, consistently in the top rank for research and teaching quality. 18 out of the 23 departments are judged world-class by the government's UK Research Assessment Exercise.

ACTIVITIES
The University of York has been involved in the provision of Continuing Professional Development for over twenty years and is renowned as an excellent provider of executive level CPD courses. The University aims to meet the development needs of professionals by transferring the innovation, intellectual wealth, skills and knowledge held by the University's academic and research centres into the work environment. By facilitating this knowledge transfer the CPD Centre enables individuals and their respective organisations to develop a competitive advantage and stay at the leading edge of their particular sectors.

Training courses in the following areas are available; Health and Medicine, Environment, IT and Communications, Leadership and Management, Biosciences and Chemistry, Business, Public Policy, Education -primary, secondary and special educational needs, English Language Training for Education and Business, Safety Critical Engineering and Electronic Engineering.

Whilst there are a wide range of established courses, the University is committed to responding to market needs, and works closely with large and small businesses, institutions and public sector organisations to develop new courses according to their specific needs and in line with meeting business growth objectives.

Collaboration with industry and public sector practitioners is a key part of CPD centre's focus and new courses are continually being developed in partnership with organisations ranging from the NHS to established blue chip corporations and small start ups.

York's CPD courses are made available to professionals based locally, nationally and internationally, in both the public and private sectors and are available both by attendance at the University of York and in many cases via distance learning. If required, a number of the courses can also be delivered overseas. Their courses are designed to be flexible and accessible, and include part-time Masters Degrees, certificates, diplomas, accredited and non-accredited short courses.

TYPICAL PROJECTS
Collaboration with Rolls Royce and Goodrich Control Systems to provide further education to their graduate engineers working in the design, verification and qualification of control systems.
The course in Gas Turbine Control is now being delivered and participants are working towards achieving the qualification, with future plans to continue to
develop and refine the course as required, including the addition of a Marine and Energy module in 2007/08.

The IT Academy was commissioned by a local government to develop and deliver IT Training for employees to enable staff to make the full use of the IT software and hardware assets at their disposal.

Following the success of the online Masters in Public Policy and Management programme, the online portfolio has recently been extended to include a new tailored public management programme commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions. The course is intended to meet the training needs of UK Civil Servants. The programme is closely linked to the Professional Skills for Government agenda and was developed in direct collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions.

The Barcelona Ministry of Education commissioned a course to prepare Spanish teachers for a change in the region's school curriculum requiring children to start English classes in their first year at school. The intensive, specialist course was created and taught by Centre for English Language Teaching (CELT).

Schering- Plough sponsored a four-day communication and presentation course for a group of their Spanish rheumatologists The course focused on improving participants' professional communications skills and aimed to develop conference presentation skills, professional writing and social interaction.

EXPERIENCE IN
EUROPE AND CIS: Austria, Denmark, France, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK and others

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia

AFRICA: Botswana, Ethiopia, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda

SOUTH ASIA: India

EAST ASIA: Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

PACIFIC: Australia

NORTH AMERICA: Canada, USA

SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia

SECTORS AND DISCIPLINES
Agriculture: Agri-business
Agriculture: Environment management & land use planning
Education: Distance Learning
Education: Education reform
Education: English language
Education: Management
Education: Schools / universities
Education: Vocational training
Energy: Climate change
Energy: Gas
Energy: Oil
Energy: Renewables
Environment: Biodiversity
Environment: Clean up
Environment: Climate change
Environment: Conservation
Environment: Contamination
Environment: Impact assessment
Environment: Management
Healthcare: Biotechnology
Healthcare: Economic & policy studies
Healthcare: Public Health
Healthcare: Staff recruitment, education and training
Healthcare: Science
Institutional: Education
Institutional: Gender & social policies
Institutional: Governance
Institutional: Management
Institutional: Public sector reform
Institutional: Training
Management: Business planning
Management: Communications
Management: E-commerce
Management: Enterprise development
Management: Risk assessment (political, business & personal)
Tourism: Heritage & culture management
Tourism: Museums
Transport: Railways
Transport: Roads
Transport: Road safety
Water: Biodiversity
Water: Environment
Education: Construction / building & design
Energy: Management consultancy
Engineering: Management consultancy
Management: Technology transfer
Tourism: Sustainable development
Technology: IT Consultancy
Technology: Security Analyst

SECTORS AND DISCIPLINES

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