How can CPD help your career?
CPD, or Continuing Professional Development, enables an individual to learn new skills. They develop knowledge relevant to enhancing their career.
Boosting your career prospects with new skills
CPD is learning activities for professionals to learn new skills or develop expertise. It is an ongoing process, usually driven by the employee, with support from their employer.
CPD courses can help you progress your career and stay up-to-date with industry developments. They allow you to continually upskill or re-skill. That's regardless of your age, experience, or occupation.
Looking to boost your career prospects or improve the skills of your team? You may want to consider CPD courses.
You can ensure you are up to date with the latest trends and industry insights. This is important in fast-paced sectors where roles and ideas are constantly changing.
This is essential to avoid your academic and practical qualifications becoming outdated.
CPD provides the opportunity for upskilling. Ultimately, it can make you better at your job. This ensures you offer the best service to customers, clients, employees, and the community.
You can demonstrate to your current and future employer that you take your career seriously. Dedicating time to CPD shows you are driven and willing to put in time and effort to be the best you can be.
CPD can help you stand out when applying for internal or external roles. This increases your chance of securing a promotion or pay rise. It also ensures you don’t fall behind your colleagues and peers.
CPD can make you a more valuable member of the team. As you become more effective in your role, you can make a more meaningful contribution. This can help you move into more senior roles, or those involving coaching and mentoring.
CPD can keep you interested and inspired, opening up new opportunities and areas for growth. In a fast-changing world, it can help you prepare for the jobs of the future.
What does CPD involve?
With every organisation and learner having different needs, CPD can take many formats. Learning can be structured or self-directed and could include:
- seminars
- webinars
- online training
- classroom training
- conferences
- events
No matter what type of CPD training, it’s important to set learning objectives at the start. Then you can reflect on what you’ve learned throughout the course.
After all, CPD isn’t just about one-off training. It’s about benefiting from lifelong learning and long-term career development.
Find out more about what CPD is and the types of training available.
CPD at Newcastle
When you study a CPD course with us, you will benefit from:
- access to the latest knowledge, skills, technologies, and tools
- access to leading teaching expertise, facilities, and online resources
- tailored courses developed alongside a range of organisations
- professional body accreditation on many degree programmes
- flexible learning, in-house, on campus, or online
We’ve delivered professional skills development for high-profile organisations, including:
- Siemens
- NHS
- Environment Agency
- Ordnance Survey
- Ministry of Education in Nigeria
- China State Tax Office
Courses and disciplines
At Newcastle University, our expertise is wide-ranging and our CPD courses are too. Our training is tied in with our research strengths, which lie in areas including:
- ageing and health
- cities and place
- culture and the creative arts
- one planet
- data
In particular, we offer CPD courses in disciplines including:
- Medicine and Healthcare
- Dental Sciences
- Science, Agriculture and Engineering
- Education, Communication and Language Sciences
- Leadership, Management, Coaching and Mentoring
- Data Science